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Captain John Marston, in tow, led in toward Fort Clark, the Minnesota following. At the same time . At two P. M. American flag displayed from Fort Clark by our pickets, who were in possession. Ad these were discovered in the out-houses of Fort Clark the day of the evacuation of that work. I uith you in the reduction of Forts Hatteras and Clark, and the capture of the forces employed in theting bad weather,) we designed an assault on Fort Clark, three-quarters of a mile distant from Fort is sent from the bow, and explodes just over Fort Clark. We pass inside of the other vessels, nearluess, but we had seen a party march out from Fort Clark early in the action, apparently for the purps moment the flags of both Fort Hatteras and Fort Clark were hauled down; a considerable body of our us. Our friends had meantime withdrawn from Fort Clark to a safer locality. Darkness began to coly the whole time the vessels kept firing on Fort Clark, and at this time the Susquehanna, which had[27 more...]
tacked the forces under the command of Colonel William F. Martin, as well as Forts Clark and Hatteras, under my command, and after a day of most severe and unceasingof the coming morning. There were but two guns mounted on the side next to Fort Clark, both thirty-two pounders, and one gun on the corner next the bar, an eight-iLieutenant George W. Daniel; No. six, facing the bar, and No. seven, facing Fort Clark, were placed in charge of Major Henry A. Gillion, assisted by Lieutenants Joha rifled battery of three guns erected in the sand hills three miles east of Fort Clark. Thus you will see they brought seventy-three guns of the most approved kindput to sea and appearances indicating bad weather,) we designed an assault on Fort Clark, three-quarters of a mile distant from Fort Hatteras, which had been taken poships, the enemy had, during the night, erected a battery of rifled guns near Fort Clark, which also opened upon us. During the first hour the shells of the ships
-seven pound cartridges, to be used in firing one gun against the trunnion of another, left this ship at half-past 7 o'clock, the launch commanded by Lieut. Eastman and the expedition under command of Lieut. Maxwell, the executive officer of this ship. I despatched the tug Tempest to Capt. Chauncy, she drawing too much water to enter the sound. At ten o'clock the Susquehanna and tug started for the inlet. On the evening of the same day the tug and Susquehanna returned and anchored off Fort Clark. The tug came in next morning, and the pilot informed me that the force from the Susquehanna did not enter Ocracoke in consequence of the surf. On the afternoon of the 17th instant I felt much anxiety for our expedition. The Susquehanna remained at anchor in the offing, and our force was left to take care of itself. Early this morning the lookout at the mast-head gave us the gratifying intelligence that our expedition was in sight, and it reached the ship about eleven o'clock. Lieute