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several flat-boats were secured, and the ferry across the river completely demolished.
Quite an amount of commissary and quartermaster's property was found, among which was about two hundred bushels of corn and meal, and considerable ham and beef, and since there was no means of transportation by which it could be got to the boat, it was destroyed.
Considerable surplus ordnance, accoutrements, and horse equipments, were also destroyed; several horses and mules were captured.
Having brought off or destroyed everything that could be of use to the enemy, and having accomplished all that circumstances could admit of, I returned to Barrancas with my whole force, where I arrived on the morning of the twenty-eighth.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. B. Spurling, Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding. Brevet Brigadier-General I. Bailey, Commanding District West Florida.