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The Daily Dispatch: October 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
lled and thirty wounded, and seven prisoners. I have seen but thirty killed, and do not know if this was all or not; but I put it down at about sixty killed, wounded, and missing, so as to cover everything. Some say only one-half the number, but it is impossible to hear the correct statement for some days yet. The loss of the enemy was great. There must have been over half of Billy's boys killed, and a good many regulars — about three hundred killed or butchered in their beds. Now, "Yanks," burn another schooner, another "dry-dock;" "oh, ye!" a just retaliation. It is believed by many military men that had the bombardment commenced when the enemy were in pursuit of our men, some four miles from the Fort, that in three hours Fort Pickens would have been ours. Many an anxious one stood at his battery, with a match ready, waiting for the word from the head-quarters to open. The men all said they awaited our movements, and they intended to walk right into Fort Packens, and