Official Reports of Battles (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Official Reports of Battles Sir: In accordance with your instructions, I have the honor respectfully to tender the following report of my evacuation of the forts, navy yard and position at and near Pensacola, Fla. On being placed in command of that place by Brigadier General Samuel Jones, on the 9th of March last, his instructions were to move as fast as my transportation would allow, the machinery and other valuable property from the navy yard. This was kept up steadily until the night of the evacuation. On receiving information that the enemy´s gun-boats had succeeded in passing the forts below New Orleans, with their powerful batteries and splendid equipments, I came to the conclusion, that with my limited means of defence, reduced as I had been, by the withdrawal of nearly all my heavy guns and ammunition, that I could not hold them in check or make even a respectable show of resistance. I. therefore, determined upon my own judgment, to commence immediately the removal of the balance of my heavy guns and their ammunition, and dispatched to you for your approval, which was answered by one, advising me to continue doing so. On receipt of General Leo´s written instructions on the subject, I pushed on the work with renewed vigor, and night and day kept up the removal of guns and valuable property. On the afternoon of the 7th instant, I received a dispatch from your Adjutant General, stating that there were a number of mortar and gun-boats off Fort Morgan, and that the fort had fired ten shots at them. Conceiving that the contingency, named in General Lee´s instructions, had arrived, viz: to bring all my available force to this point in the event of an attack, I concluded to promptly leave my position. I, therefore, sent to Montgomery a regiment of unarmed troops. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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