The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-01-18
FORT FISHER.
The Notifications Captured
Complete Official Particulars.
War Department Bulletin-The Opcr-
atoms Of the Land Forces-Heavy
Losses ON Both Sides-General Cur
( tis Wounded-21O0 Prisoners Cap
b rpreas Dispatch

Press Dispatch.l
WASHINGTON, Jan. IL.
Major General Dir:
The following official dispatch has just
been received at this Department
HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES,
ON FEDERAL. POINT, n. c.. Jan. 10.
Via. FORTRESS MONROE, Jan. II. }
Byia. Gen. j. 4. Raulins: .-....-...
GENERAL Il have the honor to report
that Fort Fisher was carried by assault
this afternoon and evening, by General
Ames' Division and the second Brigade
of the 1st Division Of the Oath Army
Corps, CALAMITY aided by battalion OF
marines and seamen from the navy. Inc
assault was preceded by heavy bonn
bardment from the fleet, and was made
at $50 P. NJ, when the First Brigade
(Curtis's) of Ames' Division effected a
Judgement upon the parapet, but full
possession of the work was not obtained
till IOP.M. The behaviour of both Off
GERS and men was most admirable. All
the works south of Fort Fisher are now
occupied by our troops. We have not
less than 1900 prisoners including Gen
Whiting and Col Lamb, the commandant
of the fort. regret TO say that our loss
is severe, especially in officers. am not
vet able to form any estimate OF the
number of casualties.
GSigned1 ALFRED II. TERRY,
Brevet Maj Genl, Commanding the
Expedition.
FORT FISHER, January 10th, :, a. M
After careful reconnaissance, Oh the
l4th, it was decided to make an assault
ON Fort Fisher, Payne's Division, with
Colonel Abbott's Brigade, to hold our
line already storming across the PENN
sula and Wilmington, against Hoke'
while Ames' Division should assault on
the west end After three hours heavy
firing, an assault was made, at ), p m,
ON the 18th. Curtis Brigade lands, and
as soon as it was on the west end OF the
land point, it was followed by Penni-
hackers, and the latter by Bells. After
desperate fighting, gaming foot by 1901,
and considerable loss, at 3, p. m, we had
possession of about one half of the land
point, AbbOtt's Brigade, was then taken
from our line facing Wilmington, and
put into Fort Fisher, and on pushing it
forward, at 10, p. IN, it took the rest OF
garrison falling back to the extreme
right Of the Peninsula, where they were
followed and captured, among others
General Whiting and Colonel Lamb,
both wounded.
think we have quite 1000 prisoners.
| hope our own loss may not exceed sou,
but it is impossible to judge in the night.
A mong the wounded are the command
er's of the three leading brigades, Gen
eral Curtis being wounded not severely,
but Colonies Pennibacker and Bell dang
erously. The parapet in places was IA
OF 10 feet high, but the men Went at it
nobly under severe musketry fire. The
marines and sailors went up CALAMITY
but the musketry fire from the east end
of the land front was SO severe there they
did not succeed in entering in the
works. The navy fire Oh the work judg-
ing from the holes, must have been
terrific Many ofthe guns were injured.
How many there were at the point can
not say-perhaps 3Oor 40.
G. B. COMsToCk
Lieut. Col. A. ID. G, and Chief Eng
Another dispatch estimates the num-
Der of prisoners captured at $500, and
the number ofguns at 70.
General Grant telegraphs to the De-
partment that in honor of this great tri-
umph, achieved by the united valor Of
the army and navy, he ordered a salute
of one hundred guns to be fired by each
of the armies operating against Rich
mond. Signed c. A. DA Ma,
Assistant Secretary of War.
Two EiIeen-Fnch Guns Rursi Oh
Roard the Monitors,