...mand 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 a large coal barge which lay at the warf.--Having the garrison thus invested, Gen. Forrest sent in a flag of t...