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XI.—List of Ordnance left on Morris Island on the night of its evacuation, September 6, 1863.

Battery Wagner.

Two X-inch Columbiads (1 dismounted and broken, 1 serviceable); 1 X-inch mortar, serviceable; 2 Viii-inch shell guns (1 serviceable, 1 injured by shell and carriage disabled); 2 Viii-inch siege howitzers fl dismounted and broken to pieces) ; 1 Viii-inch S. C. howitzer, serviceable ; 2 32-pounder smooth-bores, serviceable ; 1 42-pounder carronade, serviceable; 1 Viii-inch siege mortar, brass, spiked with friction tube two days before evacuation; 3 32-pounder carronades, serviceable; 2 12-pounder howitzers, serviceable. Total, 17.

Battery Gregg.

Two X-inch Columbiads (1 carriage injured and the other serviceable) ; 1 Ix-inch Dahlgren, serviceable; 1 X-inch S. C. mortar, serviceable; 2 12-pounder howitzers, serviceable. Total, 6.

Xii.—vessels engaged in the second bombardment of Fort fisher ; their armament, ammunition expended, and casualties in action, January 14 and 15, 1865, Rear-Admiral D. D. Porter, U. S. Navy, commanding fleet.

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Names of vessels.Commanders.Batteries.Shell exploded.Killed.Wounded.Missing.
BrooklynAlden2 100-pdrs., rifledNot given.2120
2 60-pdrs., rifled
20 Ix-in. shell guns.
MohicanAmmen1 100-pdr, rifled1200
2 30-pdrs, rifled17
6 Ix-in. shell guns419
TaconyTruxtnn2 Xii-in309000
4 Ix-in361
KansasWatmough1 100-pdr., rifled010
1 30-pdr., rifled91
2 Ix-in. shell guns394
YanticKarris1 100-pdr., rifled220
1 30-pdr., rifled23
2 Ix-in. shell guns202
UnadillaRamsay1 Xi-inch shell gun.358000
1 20-pdr., rifled45
HuronSelf ridgel Xi-inch shell gun300050
1 30-pdr., rifled
MaumeeChandler1 100-pdr , rifled117000
1 30-pdr , rifled14
2 32-pdrs.206
PequotBraine1 150-pdr., rifled146350
1 30-pdr., rifled33
6 32-pdrs.319

Atlanta, Ga. 1899.

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