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led, with 15 wounded and 20 prisoners. He adds: "Our new clothes are all destroyed, I have lost everything I had; my men also. They burned us out completely. Our papers and books are burned. My commission is safe. I sent it to the post-office the day before the fight. My men did well. They have smelt gunpowder — now they are all right. "They are exhibiting my hair and head in Pensacola; the reward is already claimed; also, an old flag which I called to a flag-staff on the Fourth of July, which has been hanging there ever since; nothing left, however, but the stars. The ladies have cut it up in pieces, and have it pinned on their bosoms as a trophy. Every one in Pensacola has my sword and uniform. I must have had a large quantity of hair, plenty of swords and uniforms. They say if I was taken alive I was to be put in a cage and exhibited." The report concludes with these jerky and suggestive sentences, which sounds very oddly in an official paper, but neverthele