. Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler; Butler's book . ight to the country forsafety This continued for about an hour and a half, when the enemyleft, the vessels that had passed the lower batteries continuing on up theriver. The result of this effort on the part of the enemy was most satisfactory;not a single gun was silenced, none disabled, and, to their surprise, theserious bombardment of the preceding seven days had thrown nothing outof fighting trim. It also demonstrated to our satisfaction that how largesoever the number of guns and mortar boats, our
. Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler; Butler's book . ight to the country forsafety This continued for about an hour and a half, when the enemyleft, the vessels that had passed the lower batteries continuing on up theriver. The result of this effort on the part of the enemy was most satisfactory;not a single gun was silenced, none disabled, and, to their surprise, theserious bombardment of the preceding seven days had thrown nothing outof fighting trim. It also demonstrated to our satisfaction that how largesoever the number of guns and mortar boats, our batteries could probablybe successfully held ; consequently that the ultimate success of our resist-ance hinged upon a movement by land. . General Van Dorn says: — It is a matter of surprise that not a single gun was dismounted duringthe whole time, and only two temporarily disabled, both being repaired inone night. The casualties on our side during the entire siege were twenty-twokilled and wounded. Not a gun was dismounted and but two weretemporarily disabled. BUTLER JS BOOK. 479. 15 5- ?4 ^4, ^^ E .> ? a 4* 4 ft i f ! :t# • 480 BUTLERS BOOK. I hope these facts will allay in some degree the great fear of ourcitizens of a war with England lest our cities should be ever done, it will be at long range. Attention is called to the facts stated: no house burned, bat somepenetrated. I believe that the mortar fleet experiment in warlikeoperations begun and has ended with Porter. To show the opinion of Admiral Farragut as to the cause of thesurrender of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, it may not be uninterest-ing to append the following letter: — U. S. Flag Ship Hartford,At Anchor off New Orleans, May 1, 1862. Deai General: — I have received your communication sent by Cap-tain Conant of the Thirty-First Massachusetts Regiment, for which pleaseaccept my sincere thanks. It affords me no little gratification that our friends who were anxiouslylooking on should consi
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