Litchfield enquirer., 1868-05-28

the assembling columns, the skilful spread
 ing0f slaarpshooters and ssldfmishers, the
 trusted advance guard, the heavy mass of
 picked troops and the sudden thunderbolt,
 a wild fury governed by cool science Sometimes in q amonth, sometimes he is f1Stnnate if in six months. the general can hb0nously creep through the many stages and crown the whole with capture. Ter " compacted the process in less than three
 days. He had old Tenth Corps troops, ex-
 perienced like himself in embarking and disembarking under all circumstances. He studied well the map. Fort Fisher is on
 the lower portion of long tongue of land
 between the sea and the lower portion of the Cape Fear River. Landing at the near
 est safe distance above it, in six or, eieht
 hours he had put ashore about 1000 men.
 carrying three days rations, ammunition
 enough, intrenching tools, and shortly af-. ter dozen pieces of light artillery. chiefly Ynurderous howitzers. The rebel General Hoke was there with division, just north of the landing He thought of assaulting that evening, but decided to wait until sun rise of January 14th. .sl@'
 By daybreak he discovered that Terry had run strong breastwork from the sea to the river, covered it by heavy abattis of the tough, sprawling scrub oak, stationed his light batteries near the river end of it, and obtained division of the fleet to help
 protect the sea end. Behind this work one-third of Terry's force could repel ten thousand mem Hoke stopped and looked on. The lines of decentralization were completed. Now for the parallels and saps and the approach to Fort Fisher. The in equahties of the ground and the sand dunes, drifted like snow, supplied the place of these. and by skillful showing for. ward, here and there. battalion at time the troops were brought near. Next the preaching batteries. These were in the fleet. There was admirable harmony be
 tween Terry and Porter They conversed ? through their signal flags all day, Terry standing in 9 hollow, within 500 yards of the Fort, and jointly poured the awful fire
 of the enormous fleet upon the northern
 face of the great sand fort, all day and
 night, and until 3 p. m, the next day. All
 but two or. three guns on that side were dismounted. and the heavy stockade at the weak point on the river extremity of the
 front where Terry intended to assault was
 seriously damaged. Terry gave full in
 structions to General A. Ames, whose di- vision was ordered to make the assault. He sent up the 18th Indiana with Spencer car-
 pines to crawl, run, creep, get up in any
 way, m long struggling line, within a hundred yards of the wall, to keep down. the enemies head and silence the remaining artillery. Regiment after regiment hitch
 ed along" as tiger creeps up. Now they lie down, now they jump up and run to the next hollow. Some of the foremost com panies carried axes to cut away the stock ade still more. They were as near as they could be brought. On their left along the sea shore the sailors and mariners had CIT It up in like manner. Gen N. M. Cur tis of New York (six feet six in his stock ings,) had the leading brigade; Colonel Louis Bell of New Hampshire the next, and the youthful Colonel Pennybacker of Pa. the third. The time came; the guns changed their aim little more to the south toIeaye a spot for assault. Circumvallation, coun- tervallation, parallels, saps and preaching were done and the four thousand men sprang with yell at the word "Go NIP In flash they had fastened on few rods of the northwest extremity of the fort and the old flag went rtp on the first high tray erse and then another. They fought six hours. The tall Curtis lost an eye. Bell fell fatally wounded. Pennybacker was Iso shot that he suffered months of unutterable "SouJ.- 0o elO lscus AUUObtS Uf1SaQ0 (1Of- merly Hawley,s) of the 9th and 7th Con nechcut, and 3d and 7th New Hampshire, was broughtldown from the breastwork,
 leaving Paine's colored troops to watch Hoke. and with general rally of all, the rebels ran from their last foothold, a mile down the point of the peninsula, and sur rendered in huddle. There was desper- ate fighting, but the proportionate loss was not so great as in many other struggles of the war, and So much the more credit to the commanding officers The arrange ments of Terry were made with the consu1n- mate skill of an accomplished General from first to last. Of course he was beautifully seconded Admiral Porter and by his sub ordinate General Ames, but the disposi- tions were all Terrys and the feet co-opera- ted just when and where he desired and suggested. Secretary Stanton was proud and grateful when he came up in a day or two and made Terry brigadier in the regulars, but he knew what he was doing and he promoted general, not Q mere rough-and-tumble fghter.- Com,ant. ]