Posted on 08/13/2024 7:05:25 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
The steamer Evening Star, from New-Orleans Aug. 6, arrived at this port yesterday. By her we receive a brief but satisfactory confirmation of the great success achieved at Mobile by Admiral FARRAGUT. It comes in the shape of a telegram from Gen. BANKS to Mrs. BANKS, who was a passenger on the Evening Star. The dispatch was put on board the Evening Star as she was passing the station at quarantine below New-Orleans.
OFFICE OF THE U.S. MILITARY TELEGRAPH, NEW-ORLEANS, Saturday, Aug. 6.
The following dispatch has just been received:
FORT PIKE, Aug. 6.
Steamer Clyde passed here this morning from the fleet. She reports that fourteen gunboats and three monitors passed the forts at Mobile yesterday at 8 A.M. One monitor was blown up opposite the forts by a torpedo. The rebel ram Tennessee was captured. Her Captain, BUCHANAN, lost a leg in the fight.
This gives us possession.
I have no other particulars.
N.P. BANKS.
Maj.-Gen.-Commanding.
Among the passengers by the Evening Star, as we have intimated, are Mrs. Gen. BANKS and family.
Our gunboats made an expedition up Grand Lake on the 26th, and destroyed a large number of flat-boats, just completed by the rebels, and several in course of construction. They also captured several small arms and accoutrements, left by the rebel skedaddling cavalrymen.
On the 28th the same gunboats destroyed two saw-mills, captured two boat-loads of valuable lumber, and returned to Berwick Bay.
On the 29th a party of Gen. ULLMAN's scouts had a fight with some rebels near Morganzia, resulting in the flight of the rebels, leaving a rebel Captain and several men dead, and a number wounded, beside several prisoners in our hands.
Gen. CANBY issued important new trading regulations on the 2d inst., by which no trading boats are allowed below Cairo,
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