Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Commodore Patterson” in chapter 12, page 177 of Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I.:
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Three hundred negroes, men, women, and children, and about twenty Indians, were in the fort; of these two hundred and seventy were killed, and the greater part of the rest mortally wounded.
Commodore Patterson , in his official letter to the Secretary of the Navy, expressly justifies the destruction of this fort on the ground of its affording a harbor for runaway slaves and disaffected Indians: adding, the...
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