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The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], Northern News. (search)
fficer from the steamer Morgan reports the fleet passed the fort without replying to its fire.--The large vessels had each a double-Ender lashed alongside. As they passed, the Tennessee stood out to engage them, followed by the Morgan, Selma and Gaines. The Selma and Gaines at once ran alongside the Hartford and engaged her, she fighting them as they ran. After passing out of reach of the fort, the Hartford cast loose the double-Ender, which the Selma at once attacked; but after a severe fight its inner line of defences, and causes the abandonment of the reasonable hope that if it had been held the fleet would have been forced to run to sea again by the guns of Fort Morgan for its supplies. The casualties in the fleet and at port Gaines. Fort Morgan, August 6. --I communicated this morning by flag of truce with the enemy's gunboat bound for the Pensacola hospital, with Admiral Buchanan and our wounded on board, and obtained the following correct list of casualties from D