The Gulf and Inland Waters Part 13

BATTERIES (EXCEPT HOWITZERS) OF MISSISSIPPI SQUADRON, JANUARY, 1863.

---------------+----+----+-----+-------+-----+----+----+----+----+----+ 32- XI- IX- VIII- 42- pdr. 100- 80- 50- 30- 20- in. in. in. pdr. sm.- pdr. pdr. pdr. pdr. pdr. NAMES sm.-bore. rifled. bore. rifled. ---------------+----+----+-----+-------+-----+----+----+----+----+----+ Benton 8 4 2 2 Cairo 3 1 6 1 Carondelet 3 4 1 1 1 1 Cincinnati 3 2 6 2 De Kalb[44] 4 12 2 Louisville 2 2 6 2 Mound City 3 3 3 2 3 Pittsburg 2 3 6 2 Tusc.u.mbia 3 2 Indianola 2 2 Choctaw 3 1 2 Lafayette 2 4 2 Chillicothe 2 Black Hawk 4 2 ---------------+----+----+-----+-------+-----+----+----+----+----+----+

RETURNS OF THE ARMAMENT OF FORT MORGAN, MOBILE HARBOR.

-----------------------------+--------+--------+-----------+------------- Confederate Report of January, January, return, U.S. Ordnance 1863. 1864. January, Officer, 1864. October, 1864.

-----------------------------+--------+--------+-----------+------------- X-inch Columbiad 5 7 5 7 VIII-inch Columbiad 5 1 1 3[44]

32-pounder smooth-bore 30 18 16 11 24-pounder smooth-bore 4 4 VIII-inch rifle 2 2 2 VII-inch rifle 1 2 6.5-inch rifle 3 4 7 7 5.82-inch rifle 4 3 30-pounder rifle, R.P.P. 1 1 24-pounder rifle (Dahlgren) 1 Whitworth (calibre 2.71) 1 1 -- Rifles (calibre not given) 2 WATER BATTERY X-inch 4 } {Not } VIII-inch 1 } Not {separately }Not 6.5-inch rifle 2 } given. {given. }mentioned.

The return for January, 1863, is taken from a captured Confederate plan showing position of the guns at that date, concerning which Captain M.D. McAlester, U.S. Engineers, says that he found some changes, but not material, when he inspected the works within a week after the surrender, and while nothing had yet been disturbed.

January, 1864, is from reports of deserters to officers of United States fleets verified by reconnoissances from tugs on clear days and by reports of spies. The indications seem to be that the lighter guns were partially withdrawn, perhaps for the landward defences of Mobile, and their place supplied by heavier and rifled guns. The estimate in the text gives for all the forts one hundred cannon, including flank howitzers. General Grant's report as Commander-in-Chief, December, 1864, says one hundred and four pieces of artillery were taken; there were a few field pieces.

FOOTNOTES:

[40] Batteries of Katahdin, Kennebec, Kineo, Owasco, Pinola, Sciota, Winona, and Wissahickon were the same as of Cayuga. The Itasca had a X-inch instead of XI-inch.

[41] The Jackson carried also one VI-inch Sawyer rifle.

[42] The other vessels not having been North are a.s.sumed to have had the same batteries as in the preceding April.

[43] The batteries in January, 1862, are given in the text, pp. 16-17.

[44] The De Kalb's battery was changed before the end of the month. See p. 122.

[45] Two of these are inventoried as "smooth-bore Brooke, double-banded," which seems unlikely.