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The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], Northern News. (search)
any--.Killed: R. Lewis. Recapitulation — Killed, 3; wounded slightly, 6; severely 1. Total casualties, 10. The capacity of Fort Morgan for Resistance. The Advertiser, speaking of the chances for Fort Morgan holding out, says: Farragut may mean to open the batteries of his twenty ships on Fort Morgan and attempt to reduce it by fire. A similar attempt on little Fort Powell failed some months ago, and if there is the right kind of Fort Sumter pluck in Fort Morgan, Farragut mayFarragut may fire in vain until the end of the war. By direct fire the fort is invulnerable, its walls being protected by a glacis of sand, in which all the shot and shell in the world could be innocently buried.--If he resorts to throwing shell over and dropping them inside the work; nobody need be hurt. The troops have only to keep away from the area; and they have no occasion to be there, for no fighting is to be done there. We take it, therefore, that in a stand-off fight of this sort, twenty wooden w
The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], Loss of the Prince Albert. (search)
From Mobile. Mobile, August 14. --Major Carroll, for the exchange of prisoners by flag of truce, went to the fleet in the lower bay to-day to effect an exchange of the Dauphin island prisoners. Farragut stated that the prisoners had been placed at the disposal of Canby, and be could do nothing. Arrangements were made to send packages to prisoners from their friends. General Maury orders officers and soldiers to remove their families forthwith. Non-combatants are again urged to leave the city. The fleet is busily cruising in the bay in sight. Heavy forces are in North Mississippi. Their destination is reported to be Mobile.