...e commander-in-chief, was five miles away from the fort, waiting to anticipate Sherman and attack him at a disadvantage, and knew not how roughly the forts were being handled by the gunboats; and Colonel Dunnington , the commander of the fort, (who had formerly been a lieutenant in the U. S. Navy) being a brave man and having a brave set of naval officers with him, did not consider himself as worsted by a great ...