...s I have a short time before the mail closes, I think I cannot better employ it than in writing to you concerning the bombardment and capture of Hatteras by the Minnesota, Wabash, Cumberland, Pawnee, Niagara , two sloops-of-war, together with several gun-boats and vessels unknown to me. Father is safe, and although the Winslow was in the heat of the engagement, thank God, escaped scatheless. The bombard...