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The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest Northern War news. (search)
bel flag was hauled down, after a very severe and closely conlested action of one hour and fifteen minutes. A boat containing the Adjutant-General and Captain of Engineers, came alongside after the flag was lowered, and reported that Gen. Lloyd Tilghman, the commander of the fort, wished to communicate with the flag officer, when I dispatched Commander Stemoel and Lieut. Commanding Phelps, with orders to hoist the American flag where the rebel ensign had been flying, and to in form Gen. Lilghman that I would see him on board the flagship. He came on board soon after the Union had been substituted for the rebel flag on the fort and possession taken of it. I received the General and his staff and some sixty or seventy men as prisoners, and a hospital ship, containing sixty invalids, together with the fort and its effects, mounting twenty guns, mostly of heavy calibre, with carracks and tents capable of accommodating 15,000 men, and sundry articles, which, as I turned the fort and