Posted on 08/15/2024 6:33:32 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Our New-Orleans files received yesterday by the steamship Creole contain ample and most interesting particulars of the victory of the gallant FARRAGUT and his fleet in Mobile Bay. The accounts of eye-witnesses, as they appear in the New-Orleans Times, Era and Picayune, are given with admirable clearness.
Farragut's Victories at Mobile.
NEW-ORLEANS, Sunday, Aug. 7.
Intelligence was received at headquarters yesterday, announcing that the fleet under Admiral FARRAGUT passed the forts at the entrance of Mobile Bay at 8 A.M., on the 5th inst.
The monitor Tecumseh was blown up by a rebel torpedo.
No other vessels were lost.
The rebel ram Tennessee surrendered after an Obstinate resistance.
The rebel Admiral BUCHANAN lost a leg in the action, and is now a prisoner.
The land force under Maj.-Gen. GORDON GRANGER invested Fort Gaines, and with light batteries opened simultaneously with the passage of the forts by the fleet, taking the water batteries in reverse, and silencing them.
Our losses are not reported.
LATER.
Later advices from Admiral FARRAGUT's fleet may be summed up as follow:
Fort Gaines has surrendered.
Fort Powell was blown up by the rebels.
[This was at Grant's Pass, at the opposite end of Dauphin Island from where the fight occurred.]
Four monitors went in first, followed by the steam war-vessels Brooklyn, Hartford, Metacomet, and others. The principal fighting was with the ram Tennessee, inside the bay.
The Metacomet, in attempting to ram the Tennessee, struck the Hartford, and stove in her side timbers. The Hartford will go north for repairs.
The rebel gunboat Selma was sunk by the Metacomet.
The gunboats Chickasaw and Winnebago chased two rebel gunboats -- the Gaines and Morgan -- into Navy Cove, and they are blockaded there, without a chance of escape.
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