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Title: Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893
Subjects: Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 Generals
Publisher: Boston (Mass.) : A.M. Thayer & Co.
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Northeastern University, Snell Library

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dings. My plan was: First to land five hundred men and reconnoitre,and if it was found that they could hold the landing for the others,then to land force enough to assault the place, and then, if it waspossible, to land the rest of the men and what material I had, andintrench. The first five hundred men were easily landed, andthen the boats were sent back and more put on shore as fast aspossible.2 As soon as the landing was in good progress, I ran down to apoint within five hundred yards of Fort Fisher, in General Gra-hams army boat, Chamberlain, and at the right of where themonitors lay that were firing upon the fort. I could run in nearerthan they could because my vessel was of lighter draft. I there metGeneral Weitzel returninor from a reconnoissance. He stated tome that he had been out to the front line, and had seen Fort Fisher, 1 The lieutenant in charge of the boats reports that the navy captured Flag Pond Hill batteryand the prisoners. = See Appendix Xo. 123. BUTLERS BOOK. 793
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Map of Fort Ftsher. 794 BUTLERS BOOK. and that one of his best officers had been out on the picket line. Asa defensive work the fort was uninjured. Its guns were all mountedon the land face, and they had seventeen guns mounted up the beach.His jiicket line, he said, Avas crouched under the counterscarpof a ditch, which was so high that it covered them. General Weit-zels report to me has since received confirmation from the reportof Major-General Whiting, of the rebel service,^ who reported thatduring the day the enemy landed a large land force, and at halfpast four advanced a line of skirmishers to the left flank of the sandcurtain. That is, our men advanced up and crouched under thesand bank which formed the counterscarp of the ditch, which washigh enough to protect them from the fire of the fort. There theycould lie exposed only to the fire of the navy which was enfiladingthem, — and we lost ten of our men by that fire from our gun-boats. General Weitzel further stated that he tho

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