...wood, that scarcely anything of value was left untouched or intact — all was complete wreck and destruction. All steamers and vessels in both ports were burned and consumed to ashes, the old " United States " being filled with rock and sunk in the harbor. After leaving the latter place, a party of Marylanders, under Lieut. A. P. Butt, burned all the quarters and Governernment buildings below Portsmouth...