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The Daily Dispatch: may 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
e, five guns, Lieutenant Commanding George H. Ransom. Schooner Ki nine guns, Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Lamson. Gunboat Harriet Lane, six guns, Lieutenant Commanding J. M. Wainwright, with Commander David D. Porter, who has twenty-one schooners, composing "Porter's mortar fleet," each carrying a heavy mortar and two thirty-two guns. The fleet, therefore, consists of forty-six salt, carrying two hundred and eighty-six guns, and twenty-one mortars the whole under command of Flag Officer D. S. Farragut--Henry H. Bell, Flag Captain. The capture of Fort Macon. The Raleigh State Journal of Saturday has the fullest account of the surrender of Fort Macon that we have yet seen: For Macon was surrendered to the enemy last Friday night, after a bombardment of some 12 or 13 hours. The enemy, working by night, had erected batteries behind the large sand banks, which the Island afforded, and mounted guns within 1,100 yards of the Fort. This was unknown to Col. White, the Com