Then began some beautiful cooperative tactics between the Army and Navy, communication being kept up with signal flags.

Our men were on one side of the parapets and the Rebels on the other, with the fighting almost hand-to-hand.

The vessels ranged out to where their guns would rake the Rebel line, and as their shot tore down its length, the Rebels gave way, and falling back to the next traverse, renewed the conflict there.

Guided by the signals our vessels changed their positions, so as to rake this line also, and so the fight went on until twelve traverses had been carried, one after the other, when the rebels surrendered.
The next day the Rebels abandoned Fort Caswell and other fortifications in the immediate neighborhood, surrendered two gunboats, and fell back to the lines at Fort Anderson.

After Fort Fisher fell, several blockade-runners were lured inside and captured.
Never before had there been such a demonstration of the power of heavy artillery.