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He led U.S. Marines in a charge on Confederate defenses during the Second Battle of Fort Fisher and was wounded four times but kept on fighting. He described his experience in “A Sailor’s Log” as “A Duel to the Death” between him and a Confederate sharpshooter. The first wound was a bullet across his chest, the second in the left below the knee which he tied off with a hankerchief and then continued on, a third tore through his right knee preventing him from standing, and while laying wounded he took a fourth that took off the tip of one of his toes. He claimed to shoot the sharpshooter that had been targeting him through the throat with his revolver as he lay on the ground bleeding. When being attended to for these wounds after the battle, he drew his revolver to prevent his leg from being amputated, and said he’d kill six men before he’d let them take his leg despite doctors fearing he would lose his life without amputation.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans
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