. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . and two English siege 12-pounders ; on the right wing, three32-pounders,— total, 23 guns. Twenty guns were found in Fort Beauregard,one of which was a 6-iuch rifle, burst,and the carriage entirely heaviest guns were a 10-inch andan 8-inch Columbiad; the other gunsmostly 32-pounders. t; The armamentsof the attacking vessels, and the losses onboth sides, will be found on page 691. In his report General T. W. Shermanstates: The beautifully constructed wort on HiltonHead
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . and two English siege 12-pounders ; on the right wing, three32-pounders,— total, 23 guns. Twenty guns were found in Fort Beauregard,one of which was a 6-iuch rifle, burst,and the carriage entirely heaviest guns were a 10-inch andan 8-inch Columbiad; the other gunsmostly 32-pounders. t; The armamentsof the attacking vessels, and the losses onboth sides, will be found on page 691. In his report General T. W. Shermanstates: The beautifully constructed wort on HiltonHead was severely crippled and many of thegains dismounted. Much slaughter had evi-dently been made there, many bodies havingbeen buried in the fort, and some twenty oithirty were found some half-mile distant. .The number of pieces of ordnance that ha\efallen into our hands is fifty-two, the bulk ofwhich is of the largest caUber, all with fine cai-Iiages, etc., except eight or nine, that wereruined by our fire, which dismounted theirpieces. On the afternoon of the 8th GeneralSherman made a reconnoissance, on. CAPTAIN PEECIVAL DKAYTON, COMMANDER OF THEU. S. STEAJIER POCAHONTAS AT POKT EOYAL —BROTHER OF THE COMMANDER OF THE CON-FEDERATE FORCES. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. i^ General Drayton thus describes the resistancemade to the attack of the Union fleet, referring atthe outset to the first shot from Fort Walker: The shell from the Dahlgren exploded near themuzzle, and was harmless. Other shots followed fromboth forts, and soon the Are hecame general on land andwater. In spite of our fire, directed with dellberatlou and coolness, the fleet soon passed lioth hatteries appnr-ently iinharmed, and. then retnrninij, dellvored in theirchanging roxmds a teiTiflc shower of shot and shell inflank and front. Besides this moving battery, the fortwas enfiladed by two gun-boats anchored to the north, offthe mouth of Pish Hall Creek, and another at a point onthe edge of the shoals to the south. This
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