The bombardment of Fort McAlister continued five hours
yesterday, when the enemy's boats drew off. The injury to the fort can be
repaired in a day. Not a man was killed or a gun dismounted. The injury done
the fleet is not known. But the opinion prevails here that if the bombardment
was continued to-day, the elongated shot of the enemy probably demolished the
fort.
Last night and all this day it snowed incessantly — melting
rapidly, however. This must retard operations by land in Virginia and probably
in North Carolina.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 248
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