Both commenced calling for reinforcements the moment they saw our troops landing.

The Governor of North Carolina called for everybody who could stand behind a parapet and shoot a gun, to join them.

In this way they got two or three hundred additional men into Fort Fisher; and Hoke's division, five or six thousand strong, was sent down from Richmond.

A few of these troops arrived the very day that Butler was ready to advance.
On the 24th the fleet formed for an attack in arcs of concentric circles, their heavy iron-clads going in very close range, being nearest the shore, and leaving intervals or spaces so that the outer vessels could fire between them.

Porter was thus enabled to throw one hundred and fifteen shells per minute.