NEW YORK, March 28.
Intelligence by the steamer Constitution from Fort Monroe states that Com. Farragut’s fleet numbers 23 vessels, including the Hartford, Pensacola, Brooklyn and Com. Porter’s mortar fleet numbers 29 vessels. The officers of the Constitution suppose the work of reducing Forts Jackson and St. Phillips, was commenced some days since. It was supposed some of the mortar boats would take position in an inlet in the rear of Fort Jackson, while the others advance within shelling distance in the river, and endeavor to drive the enemy out of the forts. In the meantime the gunboats would silence a battery about a mile below the forts, which protects the barricade of the river. If the forts should continue impervious to the bombs of the mortar fleet, those acquainted with the energy of Farragut, anticipate he will take the fleet directly under the guns of the forts and by repeated broadsides of grape and shrapnel endeavor to drive the gunners from their posts.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 29, 1862, p. 1
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