BEFORE CORINTH, MISS., May 18. – The Mobile Advertiser and Register contains the following special:
PENSACOLA, May 10. – At 12 o’clock last night Pensacola Navy Yard and the forts were set on fire and destroyed. When the enemy discovered what was going on, Fort Pickens opened a furious bombardment and kept it up during the conflagration and without doing damage to anybody at Pensacola. All the public property except the custom house, which is incapable of being burned, was moved, but all the moveable Confederate property has been saved. The railroad track leading out of the city was torn up this morning. A Federal vessel with a flag of truce came up to the city, demanding a surrender – Mayor Ballbe refused to comply with the demand, but as all the military forces had left he had no power to oppose. The Federal officer replied that they would occupy the city to-morrow, but that the inhabitants need not be alarmed.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 4
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