240 NortH Carotina Troops, 1861-’65.

Fortieth North Carolina Regiment (four companies),
Captain Jas. L. Lane, Company D, 91;Captain M. H.
McBryde, Company E, 90; Captain Geo. C. Buchan,
Company G, 90; Captain D. J. Clarke, Company
K, 65; total

Tenth North Carolina Regiment (two companies), Cap-
tain E. D. Walsh, Company F, 55; Captain Wm.
Shaw, Company K,, 65; total

First North Carolina Battalion, Captain Jas. L. MeCor-
mick, Company D; total

Third North Carolina Battalion, Captain Jno. M. Sut-
ton, Company C

Thirteenth North Carolina Battalion, Captain Z. T.
Adams, Company D

Naval Detachment, sailors and marines, Captain A. C.
Vanbenthusen

Twenty-first South Carolina Regiment, Captain Dubose,
and Twenty-fifth South Carolina Regiment, Captain
Carson, of Hagood’s Bridge; total 350

Surgeons, Spiers W. Singleton; Assistant Surgeon, Pow-
hatan Bledsoe, with band as ambulance corps, includ-
ing all field and staff officers and volunteers, officers,
cooks and other detailed men, not over

Grand total

Major-General Whiting, Major James H. Hill, Assistant
Adjutant-General, with others on Whiting’s staff, were in

the fort as volunteers.

General Braxton Bragg in his official report, made from _

Headquarters, Department of North Carolina, Wilmington,

N. C., 20 January, 1865, gives the garrison 1,800 men; to ,

which he says he added 500, making 2,300.

In same report he says: “fort Fisher had 110 commis-
sioned officers and 2,400 or 2,500 men.”

There had 1,550. officers and men reported in Fort Fisher
up to 15 January, 1865. Hagood’s Brigade, 1,000 strong,
was sent by Bragg on that day, but only 350 landed and _re-
ported ; this made 1,900. Had all landed, Bragg would have

been about correct.

Tue Derence or Fort FIsHer. 241

General Bragg’s reports of Fort Fisher, its garrison and
their defence are grossly inaccurate.

Battery Buchanan—Captain R. F. Chapman, C. 8. N.

Hoke’s Division, Major-General Robert F. Hoke.

Clingman’s Brigade—Eighth North Carolina, Thirty-first
North Carolina, Fifty-first North Carolina, Sixty-first North
Carolina. ;

Colquitt’s Brigade—Brigadier-General A. H. Colquitt:
Sixth Georgia, Colonel T. J. Lofton; Nineteenth Georgia,
Twenty-third Georgia, Twenty-seventh Georgia, Twenty-
eighth Georgia.

Hagood’s Brigade—Eleventh South Carolina, Twenty-
first South Carolina, Twenty-fifth South Carolina, Twenty-
seventh South Carolina, Seventh South Carolina Battalion.

Kirkland’s Brigade—Seventeenth North Carolina, Forty-
second North Carolina, Sixty-sixth North Carolina.*

Cavalry—Second South Carolina, Colonel T. J. Lipscomb.

According to General Bragg’s official report the garrison
of Fort Fisher (including reinforcements from the adjacent
forts) numbered 1,800, and the movable force under Gen-
eral Hoke, including reserves and cavalry, was about 6,000.
In regard to the losses, the same authoritity says: “After
the enemy entered the fort our loss is represented to have
been about 500 killed and wounded.”

General Terry reported the capture of 112 officers and
1,971 men, but this was incorrect or possibly included pris-
oners from other commands. After the war Colonel Lamb
tried to ascertain the number of prisoners sent north from
Fort Fisher, but found no data and the numbers of prisoners
were generally estimated except in an exchange. All present
in Fort Fisher 13-15 January, including sick, killed and
wounded, numbered 1,900.

NORTH ATLANTIC SQUADRON.

Rear Apmtrat Davin D. Porrrr, Commanding.
Lrevrenant-Commanper K. R. Brerse, Fleet Captain.
Lizvrenant M. W. Sanpers, Signal Officer.

Nort —The Fiftieth North Carolina of this brigade was absent in
South Carolina.—Ep.

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