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The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
red upon conditions not known here. "D. H. Maury, Major-General." Each fresh development in regard to the surrender of Fort Gaines goes to prove that it was an act of cowardice or treachery on the part of its commanding officer, Colonel Anderson, of the Twenty-first Alabama regiment. The fort is a casemated work, mounting some fifty guns, was well manned, and provisioned for six months; and we have the assurance of General Maury that it was in good condition, and that the garrison had suffered but little. All this looks very dark for Colonel Anderson, though there is a vague hope — very vague, we confess,--that when the facts are developed they may justify the surrender and save his reputation. The press dispatches give the enemy's version of the naval engagement off Mobile, copied from New Orleans papers of the 9th. It shows that the Tennessee made a most gallant fight, and even when surrounded by Yankee vessels, and after having been struck amidships by the Monon