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The Daily Dispatch: February 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
The Fort. The fort mounted seventeen guns, most of them thirty-two and thirty-four pounders, one being a magnificent ten-inch columbiad. Our shots dismounted two of their guns, driving the enemy into the embrasures. One of their rifled thirty-two pounders burst during the engagement, wounding some of their gunners. The rebels claimed to have but eleven effective guns, worked by fifty-four men — the number all told of our prisoners. They lost five killed and ten badly wounded. Gasconade. The infantry left everything in the fight. A vast deal of plunder has fallen into our hands, including a large and valuable quantity of ordnance stores. Gen. Tilghman is disheartened. He thinks it one of the most damaging blows of the war. In surrendering to Flag-Officer Foote, the rebel General remarked, "I am glad to surrender to so gallant an officer." Flag-Officer Foote replied, "You do pefectly right, sir, in surrendering; but you should have blown my boats out of the wate