...ng, and applying the sabre to any who dared to shrink or stop to plunder. In a few minutes' time the whole command was safe under the guns within forty yards of the fort. In the meantime, Major Charles Anderson , A. D. C., with the and four companies, had been seat south of the fort, on the bank of the Mississippi river, to prevent the gunboats landing reinforcements, or any escape from the fort by means of...