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The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Pensacola fight — official report of Colonel Brown. (search)
o explain why I have now opened my batteries on the enemy, when, from the smallness of my forces, about one-sixth of his, thirteen hundred to eight thousand, I have not the means of producing any decisive results, and as evidence of my having accomplished what I designed — the punishing the perpetrators of an insult of my country's flag. Having invited flag officer McKean to cooperate with me in attacking the rebels, and to which he gave a ready and cordial assent, on the morning of the 22d, opened my batteries on the enemy, to which, in the course of half an hour, he responded from his numerous forts and batteries extending from the navy-yard to Fort McBas, a distance of about four miles, the whole nearly equidistant from this fort, and on which line he has two forts — McRae and Barrancas — and fourteen separate batteries, containing from one to four guns, many of them being ten inch columbiads, and some 12 and 13-inch coast mortars, the distance varying from two thousand one <