The opposing forces at Port Royal, November 7th, 1861.
The Union fleet,
Flag-Officer S. F. Du Pont, commanding.
Captain Charles Henry Davis,
Fleet-Captain.
Flag-ship: frigate
Wabash (2 10-inch, 28 9-inch, 14 8-inch, 2 12-pounders),
Commander C. R. P. Rodgers; sidewheel steamer
Susquehanna (15 8-inch, 1 24-pounder, 2 12-pounders),
Captain J. L. Lardner; sloop
Mohican (2 11-inch, 4 32-pounders, I 12-pounder),
Commander S. W. Godon;
Seminole (1 11-inch, 4 32-pounders),
Commander J. P. Gillis;
Pocahontas (1 10-inch, 4 32-pounders),
Commander Percival Drayton;
Pawnee (8 9-inch, 2 12-pounders),
Lieutenant R. H. Wyman; gun-boats
Unadilla,
Lieutenant Napoleon Collins;
Seneca,
Lieutenant Daniel Ammen;
Ottawa,
Lieutenant T. H. Stevens;
Pembina,
Lieutenant J. P. Bankhead (each of the four latter carried 1 11-inch, 1 20-pounder rifle, and 2 24-pounders); sailing sloop
Vandalia (4 8-inch, 16 32-pounders, 1 12-pounder),
Commander F. S. Haggerty; steamer
Bienville (8 32--pounders, 1 30-pounder rifle),
Commander Charles Steedman;
Augusta (8 32-pounders, I 12-pounder),
Commander E. G. Parrott;
Curlew (6 32-pounders, 1 20-pounder rifle),
Lieutenant P. G. Watmough;
Penguin (4 32-pounders, 1 12-pounder),
Lieutenant T. A. Budd;
R. B. Forbes (2 32-pounders),
Lieutenant H. S. Newcomb;
Isaac Smith (8 8-inch, 1 30-pounder rifle, originally, but the broadside battery was thrown overboard on the way down from
Hampton Roads),
Lieutenant J. W. A. Nicholson.
The loss in the Union fleet, as officially reported, was 8 killed, and 23 wounded. Total, 31.
Union land forces,
Brig.-Gen. Thomas W. Sherman.
First Brigade,
Brig.-Gen. Egbert L. Vield: 8th Me.,
Col. Lee Strickland; 3d N. H.,
Col. Enoch Q. Fellows; 46th N. Y.,
Col. Rudolph Rosa; 47th N. Y.,
Col. Henry Moore; 48th N. Y.,
Col. James H. Perry.
Second Brigade,
Brig.-Gen. Isaac I. Stevens: 8th Mich.,
Col. William M. Fenton; 79th N. Y.,
Lieut.-Col. William H. Nobles; 50th Pa.,
Col. Benjamin C. Christ; 100th Pa.,
Col. Daniel Leasure.
Third Brigade,
Brig.-Gen. Horatio G. Wright: 6th Conn.,
Col. John L. Chatfield; 7th Conn.,
Col. Alfred H. Terry; 9th Me.,
Col. Rishworth Rich; 4th N. H.,
Col. Thomas J. Whipple.
Unattached . 3d R. I.,
Col. Nathaniel W. Brown; 1st N. Y. Engineers,
Col. Edward W. Serrell; Battery E, 3d U. S. Art'y,
Capt. John Hamilton.
Confederate land forces,
Brig.-Gen. Thomas F. Drayton: 4th Ga. Battalion,
Lieut.-Col. W. H. Stiles; 9th S. C. (3 co's),
Col. William C. Heyward; 12th S. C.,
Col. R. G. M. Dunovant; 15th S. C.,
Col. W. D. De Saussure;
Beaufort (S. C.) Guerrillas,
Capt. J. H. Screven; Ga. Battery,
Capt. Jacob Read; 1st S. C. Militia Art'y (2 co's),
Col. John A. Wagener.
Loss: k, 11; w, 48; m, 7 = 66.
Confederate naval forces,
Flag-Officer Josiah Tattnall:
Savannah (flag-ship),
Lieut. John N. Maffitt;
Sampson,
Lieut. J. S. Kennard;
Resolute,
Lieut. J. Pembroke Jones.
They were small side-wheel steamers, and each carried 2 32-pounders (smooth-bore). There were no casualties.
