Anyway, Major Reilly was the senior Confederate officer present who was not wounded and it came time to surrender Fort Fisher. Reilly surrendered to Captain E. Lewis Moore of the 7th Connecticut, the first Union officer he could find as federal troops were converging on Battery Buchanan from two directions.
Years later, a newspaper wanted to know actually surrendered the fort. Reilly wrote that he had and that he had actually surrendered to Captain J. Homer Edgerly of the 3rd New Hampshire Infantry.
Later, Whiting and Lamb officially surrendered the fort to Union General Terry.
Whiting was taken to Fort Columbus in New York Harbor and while recovering from his wounds, was visited by General Butler and thoroughly questioned while Butler was trying to come out from the investigation of why he didn't capture Fort Fisher.
Whiting recovered from his wound, but unfortunately came down with the soldier's disease, a chronic case of dysentery and died March 10, 1865.
More to Come. --Old B-Runner
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