Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1865-01-25
CAPTURE of.Fort Fisher.


Night before last We went quietly to
bed satisfied that all was right at Fort
Fisher. Our attention, strained to the
utmost for days, tagged, and wewent i'm.
ulediately to- sleep. son Yesterday morn.
ing we wokesto find Fort Fisher captured
As.we expected, General Whiting fought
like a paladin. Both he and Col. Lamb
are seriously wounded, and in@the hands
of the enemy.
It is certain that generally the Fort
vas fought with chivalric bravery. 70
this there were exceptions, to which, at
some future time we may allude as a
matter of justice to others. We cannot
say when that time may occur,
For the present it is enough for us to
know that Fort Fisher has fallen, that a
division Of infantry in the field were in
gunshot and did not fire gun to it,
that we know OF, and that heroic men like
Whiting, Lamb, and. Others are prisoners
that The last port in the Confederacy
is gone, and thsEit ought to have been
saved.
We will not trust ourselves to- say
more. If we said anything, We might pos
sibly, give vent to our feelings. We do
place the responsibility for our failure,
but if we once commenced we might give
too wide a vent. Our port ougAt not to
hare fallen. There. is q responsibility
that responsibility will hereafter ap-
pear.
So far as we can sec, the enemy can
not get to thestown we says's so far
! as we can see, for we place no reliance
UPON what we cannot Judge for ourselves.
On Sunday night, awfully tired, VIC slept
quietly, thinking,th that all was right, de-
pending upon an official despatch. We
found the thing totally different.
1t is not our partto give advice to our
citizens. There's are so many that, under
any. circumstances, cannot leave, while
there are SO many that, under any circum-
stances, ni$t leave, that no single rule
could apply to all. Every mans con:
science must be his own judge. We need
hardly say what acc will do, or try to do
Our course, we. presume, is anticipated.
We are Confederates. If we Jose, why
we lose.
But we see no reason why swe, more
than Mobile. should be taken. God only
knows why our outer. defences were ia
ken; wedo not; we have lost many good
and true friends, we may lose many more:
We fear that they were sacrificed. Such
is the impression we.have derived from all
we have heard and otherwise learned.
There is'no doubt but that there is a
strong excitement against Gen. Bragg.
There can be no doubt either, that Gen.
Bragg has attached to him the prestige
of bad luck. Unfortunately he always
has that prestige. Permanent bad luck
means permanent bad management, Some
where. A man with this prestige ought
not to have been sent here.
Some people never learn anything, aud
never ferget anything; as, for instance, the
Bourbons and the high old "Conserva.
tives" in this S tic, who, for once, did
seem to cooperate with the Richmond
cliques in maliguing General Whiting,
ana demanding somebody else. They ap-
pear to have got their desires gratifed.
Gen. Whiting is wounded and a prisoner.
Is Gov. Vance perfectly satisfied? He, we,
know, was one of the agents in overriding,
superscding and trying to ruin Gen. Viii
ting. All right, We suppose, in party
point of Wilmington Journal, l7th.