A Black Chaplain Writes About the Aftermath of the Second Battle of Fort Fisher

From the North Carolina Historic Sites "Black Troops at Fort Fisher."

Chaplain Henry M. Turner, 1st USCT, describes the capture of Fort Fisher and afterwards.

**  "The land forces on out [right] ... in no instance broke or exhibited any cowardice...."  He was talking about white troops.

**  "At one time I thought they could never stand it, neither do I believe they would have stood, but for the fact that they knew the black troops were in the rear, and if [the white troops] failed, the colored troops would take the fort and claim the honor.

"Indeed, the white troops told the rebels that is they did not surrender they would let the negroes loose on them...."

--Old B-Runner