From the Civil War Interactive Newswire.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 1865
Confederates "wreak havoc on the Naval landing party, killing many officers and repulsing the attack, only to find Union flags on the western salient of the fort. Then commencing some severe hand-to-hand fighting.
Union Naval officer Thomas O. Selfridge (the sinker of ships) is able to breach the parapet on the sea face, but was forced to retreat with the rest of the Naval column.
The Beginning of the End. --B-R'er
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