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Page 603 Chapter LXIV. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.--UNION.

MOBILE POINT--7.30 p. m.

General GRANGER:

How is the firing?

BAILEY,

General.

OFF FORT MORGAN--7.33 a. m.

General BAILEY:

Very good. If anything, a little too high.

GRANGER,

General.

CAPTAIN OF Chickasaw:

You should move up close or cease firing.

BAILEY,

General.

MOBILE POINT.

THE LAURA:

Come in close to the Winnebago.

GRANGER,

General.

Gun-boat OCTORARA:

You fire too high.

GRANGER,

General.

Admiral FARRAGUT:

When does the first dispatch boat leave for New Orleans?

GRANGER,

General.

General GRANGER:

4 p. m.--The boat leaves at 10 o'clock to-morrow.

FARRAGUT,

Admiral.

BATTERIES--4.40 p. m.

Captain MONTGOMERY,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

Please send the sand sacks ashore.

BAILEY,

General.

General BAILEY:

4.42 p. m.--All right. Will do so at once.

MONTGOMERY,

Captain.

MONITOR WINNEBAGO--5.18 p. m.

Admiral FARRAGUT:

Both our turrets are disabled, and we return to our anchorage.

STEVENS,

Captain.

Admiral FARRAGUT:

5.20 p. m.--Send Lynch. I wish to find the well outside to-night.

GRANGER,

General.

MOBILE POINT, 1864.

General GRANGER:

Do you intend for any guns to fire to-night? Expect the right and left mortars.

BAILEY,

General.


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