At their final council of war in the Dover Hotel at 1:30 a.m. on February 16, Buckner stated that if C.F. Smith attacked again, he could only hold for thirty minutes, and he estimated that the cost of defending the fort would be as high as a seventy-five percent casualty rate.
2月16日午前1時半、ドーバーホテルでの最後の作戦会議で、バックナーは、もしスミス師団が再度攻撃を掛けてくれば30分しか持たない、砦を守る損失率は75％になると推計すると述べた。