Further particulars of the Naval Engagement.
FT. MONROE, March 10. – The Minnesota yesterday returned to
her usual station at the entrance to the roads; she is again ready for
action. The Monitor came down early this
morning, and was greeted with enthusiastic cheers by the various vessels in the
harbor. Gen. Wool and staff, and
assistant Secretary Fox of the Navy went on board this morning. She was found not to be damaged in the
slightest degree, and is as well prepared as ever she could be for another
action. Her performance was perfectly
satisfactorily [sic] to her officers and men, and they all speak of her in the
highest terms of praise.
The gunboat White Hall took fire at 2 o’clock this morning
and was totally destroyed.
The French sloop of war Rinaldo arrived here this morning
from off Charleston. No news.
The latest estimate of the number of killed on the Congress
is fifty including three officers – Lieut. James Smith, commanding, Acting
Master Thos. Moore, and coast pilot Wm. Rounds.
Twenty-seven are reported wounded and forty were taken prisoners – none of
them officers.
On board the Cumberland Rev. Sothard, the Chaplain, was
drowned, and Master’s Mate Harrington was killed. But few of the wounded escaped to shore. The number of killed and wounded is about one
hundred and fifty.
On the White Hall Third Assistant Engineer Andrew Nesbit and
Robt. Wough and Charles O’Connor, seamen, were killed, and two or three
wounded.
The Wm. Wheldon received a shot in her boiler, and the
rescue was damaged in her machinery. The
former was towed to Baltimore by the Adelaide.
Six men were killed and seventeen wounded, not including any
officer. So far as known she is said to
have received quite a number of shots.
The Roanoke received but two shots and little damage was
occasioned by them. No casualty occurred
on board except the falling of a man from aloft.
It is generally believed now that the Minnesota must have
received serious damage. It is the
testimony of some that she was considerably stove in the side as she went
behind Sewall’s Point.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 4
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