James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

[247] the enemy. He continued in this perilous position until the entire command crossed the river and the enemy began to retire, when he crossed with the faithful Sixteenth. Wilson lost but 2 men killed and 4 captured, and killed and wounded 75 of the enemy.

Suspecting that the enemy would cross the Tennessee river, Col. D. C. Kelley's brigade, with a section of Hudson's battery under Lieutenant Walton, was moved to Eastport. On the 10th the enemy moved up the river with two gunboats and three transports loaded with troops. Kelley masked his forces until the enemy landed a brigade of infantry and three pieces of artillery, when Walton opened upon them with his guns. Two shots penetrated one gunboat, and a shell was exploded in one of the transports, which was soon enveloped in flames. The troops were stampeded and the boats pushed off, but in the effort to gain the boats many were drowned, 12 men were killed on the bank of the river, and a large number killed and wounded on the boats. Thirty prisoners, 4 field guns, 20 horses and 60 stand of small-arms were captured.

The forces under Col. Geo. B. Hoge, commanding the expedition so gallantly thwarted by Colonel Kelley, consisted of his own regiment, the One Hundred and Thirteenth Illinois, the One Hundred and Twentieth Illinois, Sixty-first United States colored infantry, and Company G, Second Missouri light artillery, with a company of the Twelfth Missouri cavalry. In his official report he stated that ‘on nearing Eastport the gunboat Key West went above the landing and seemed to be satisfied that there was no enemy near; at least, in a few moments Captain King motioned me to land my troops. Lieutenants Lytle and Boals, of my staff, started out to reconnoiter, and 500 yards from the landing they encountered and exchanged shots with the (Confederate) enemy's pickets. In ten minutes after, a battery of six rifled guns, masked on the hill, opened on the transports, ’