Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-01-25

stained fort, another and another fol
lowed. Lieut.. f E. Beardsley, Chief
Of The Signal Corps of the expeditionary
forces, who had all day stood to bis duty
exposed TO the sharpshooters Of the fort,
flashed 8 message from the General to
The Admiral that the fort was ours, and
almost iBstantaneonsly the whole sky
was ablaze With signal rockets from the
rejoicing feet
Abbotts brigade vas ordered to ad-
vance upon Fort Buchanan, the G;rong
rectangular sarthwork fort mile TO the
eastward of the Mound battery. and 8
mile and half from Fort Fisher, before
described. Here the wounded General
Whiting and Colonel Lamb had been
conveyed, and some seven OF eight hun
dred Of the garrison had, il seems, re-
treated Col. AbbotI's forces moved up
the Cape Fear shore, and on arriving
before the forf found that two officers
had been dispatched with flag Of truce
TO offer the capitulatien Of Fort Bach-
anan, aud soon aftsrward they came in,
accompanied by Capt Graves, of Gen.
Terry's staff, and at twelve o'clock the
fort was formally surrendered
The interior of Fort Fisher was the
most complete picture of destruction
and desolation which it is possible to
conceive. The dead and dying lay thick
ly strewed along the parapets aud upon
the plain behind as well as in front The
bombprcof was crowded with cringing
rebels, and many Of the wounded,
estimated by one of our surgeons, who
had made q hasty survey, as high as 500
The pArapet aud trsverses were plowed
aud corrugated By shot and SHE'LL IN every
direction, as the sand plan in the rear Of
the work& The barracks inside Of the
bastion were shivered into splinters
scarcely large enough FOR stove-Eood,
while the large columbiads along the
parapets we're dismounted aud streWn in
confusion amid the wreck Of their broken
carriages Everything evinecd the mer-
eiless and most internal rain Of death
dealing missiles that the world has ever
seen.
To storm and expect TO carry such a
work with the forces used By Gen Terry
without the aid extended By the navy,
would be the hight Of folly; while, for
the combined navics Of the world 10 at
tempt TO batter down alone, earthworks
such as these, would be as foolish as for
them 10 essay TO demolish Tenerilfe.
As to the numbers Of prisoners can
speak with tolerable exactitude. AT
half-past IL O'Clock the Provost. Marshal
Informed Gen. Terry, in my presence,
that twelve bnndred and seventy-sight
had been brought in I had, in com.
pauv with the General, Just witnessed
lbs formal surrender Of Fort Buchanan,
with prisoners, according to Col Abb
hotts estimate, not less than eight hund
red, while all the rebel wounded were
still remaining in the bomb-proofs, and
must hayebumbered a. least two hund.
redsand fifty.
Tribute TO IsDIASA soLplEHs.
A correspondent Of ths New York
Herald, ia describing the assault, says
General CARTS went into the assault
under instructions from General Ames,
commanding the division, 70 oblique a
the right and occapy if possible the
northeast corner Of the fort General
Curtis succeeded in doing this, after
heFoically overcoming a most desperate
resistance, and gallantly placed the Rag
Of bis country on the parapet, where I;
waved in the breezes Of the ocean, amid
cheers upon cheers Of the advancing
soldiers. The eonnterscarp on the bssci
/ face Of the fort was occupied and nobl]
he.d by the old and war.beaten Thir
teeth Indiana Volunteers, armed with
the Spencer rifle, under command oI
Lieutenant Colonel Gent This regi
meut has served since the beginning o
the war, and on every field aud in ever
contest adds new iaurels TO ita alread,
henored ehaplet Of renown.