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Thursday, February 9, 1865. This mornign we changed boats twice before landing. After landing we passed Fort Fisher. Captured Eighty-six large guns beside a number of small guns. One two hundred lb Armstrong gun mounted on mahogany was presented to the Rebles by the Brittish blockade runners. Our men captured some twenty five hundred prisoners. Gen. Terry Comdg the land forces and Poster the Fleets

Friday, February 10, 1865. To day we are laying in Camp on Cafse fear River. I went to take a Stroll over Fort Fisher which fell on the 15th of Jan 1865. I see one of Armstrongs guns mounted on mahogany carriage a one hundred and fifity lb presented to the Rebles by the Brittish blockade runners. They had one of Robisons and Cottum make London. It shoots one hundred and twenty to times. A britch lauding sifted gun and not over fans feet long

Repository: Mohican Historical Society, Cleo Redd Fisher Museum, Loudonville, Ohio