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r subjected. The front faces of the fort are honeycombed from bottom to top, and the ground in front and rear is covered with shells and torn into great pits and gullies. In some places one can hardly walk without stumbling over the shells and solid shot rained upon the devoted garrison. And yet the fort remains intact, and is as strong and sound to-day as it was when Porter first opened upon it. Our loss, too, is wonderfully small, being three killed outright and fifty-five wounded.--Two Brooke guns, cast at Selma, burst; two others were dismounted by our own carelessness, and two by the fire of the enemy. Such is the nett result of the long day's bombardment by fifty-nine vessels of war and five hundred and eighty-three guns. The bombardment on the first day lasted five hours, and on the second, seven hours; during which it is estimated over twenty thousand shots were fired by the enemy. The fort responded slowly and deliberately, firing only six hundred and sixty-two shots the