Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Admiral Porter” in chapter 10 of James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy.:
... were too heavily against them, however, and the Covington was at last abandoned and destroyed, while the Signal fell a captive to the Confederates, who sunk her in the channel as an obstruction.
Admiral Porter said: Many of the actions heralded to the world during the late war were much less worthy of notice than this contest between two little gunboats only musket-proof and twenty pieces of artillery.
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