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all on board. Had our land forces efficiently coöperated, most of the Rebels might have been taken; as it was, Col. Brown returned unmolested to the fort.

hand in the business. Doubling Cape | tearing them to pieces and destroying Hatteras next morning, the Monticello, Lieut. Braine, came upon the main Rebel force at 1 P. M., and opened upon them with shells, putting them instantly to flight, with great slaughter. The bank or beach between the ocean and the Sound, being less than a mile wide, afforded little protection to the fugitives, who sustained an incessant fire from the Monticello for two hours; and two of our shells are said to have penetrated two Rebel sloops laden with men,

Fort Pickens, on the western extremity of Santa Rosa Island, commanding the main entrance to Pensacola harbor, was saved to the Union, as we have seen,' by the fidelity and prompt energy of Lieut. Slemmer. It was reënforced soon after the fall

of Sumter, and its defense confided to | bombardment, which, on our side, Col. Harvey Brown. A formidable was eagerly awaited. Rebel force, ultimately commanded by Gen. Braxton Bragg, was assembled, early in the war, at Pensacola, and long threatened an attack or

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