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[321] Assuring ourselves of the facts as stated in this report, I have especially to ask for the steamers Reliance and Resolute of this flotilla, each a small rifled cannon in addition to the smooth-bored gun with which they are provided. For the want of a rifled gun in them, I was obliged to forbid their coming closely under a fire to which they could not reply with even an approximate effect. Lieutenant commanding, N. Collins, of the Anacosta, will make his own report.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

J. H. Ward. Commander U. S. Navy commanding Flotilla. To the Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. C.

--National Intelligencer, June 3.

Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.

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