...bayou, in accordance with previous arrangements, and that I should leave gunboats there to protect him against the enemy, who I now perceived had three or four gun-boats left at the forts — the Louisiana , an iron-clad battery of 16 guns; the McCrea, very similar in appearance to one of our gunboats, and armed very much in the same way; the Defiance, and a river steamer transport. We then proceede...