Raid preparing at
Pensacola Navy-Yard; quiet elsewhere. Nothing late from Fort Morgan; wires
broken. Forrest drove enemy's advance out of Oxford last night. All particulars
of Fort Gaines' surrender known are commanding officer communicated with enemy
and made terms without authority; his fort in good condition, garrison having
suffered little. He made [no] reply to repeated orders and signals from General
Page to hold his fort, and surrendered; conditions not known. Serious delays
and mischief occasioned by depot quartermasters refusing to issue necessary
supplies, except by orders from Richmond; please correct it.
SOURCE: The
War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and
Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 39, Part 2 (Serial No. 78), p. 770
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