the surrender; General Duncan treating only for the garrisons
under his command, and expressly disclaiming any connection with us.

We were kept for a few days in close confinement on board the United
States gunboat "Clifton,"[7] and were transferred from her on the 7th of
May to the frigate Colorado, lying off the mouth of the Mississippi.
Here we found Kennon, who had been consigned to a "lower deep" than
ourselves. He was placed under a sentry's charge behind a canvas screen
on the opposite side of the gun deck from us; and strict orders were
given that no one should hold any communication with him. The charge
against him was, that he had caused the death of some of his wounded
crew by setting fire to his ship before their removal, a charge denied
by him; but even if it were true, or admitted, that some of his crew
were unable to escape, he was only responsible to his own government. In
a few days, however, he was released from solitary confinement, and many
restrictions were removed from all of us. But humiliations or physical
discomforts weighed as a feather upon our spirits compared with our
reflections upon the consequences of the disaster which we had
witnessed; and our consciousness that this sad fate had been brought
upon the country chiefly by treachery and want of concert. And, indeed,
the extent of the disaster could scarcely be exaggerated. It gave the
United States Government possession of the State of Louisiana, the
almost complete control of the Mississippi river, and separated Texas
and Arkansas from the rest of the Confederacy for the remainder of the
war.

FOOTNOTES:

[4] Extract from Commodore Mitchell's official report dated August 19th,
1862. "The following is believed to be a correct list of the vessels
that passed up by Forts Jackson and St. Philip during the engagement of
the 24th April; mounting in the aggregate one hundred and eighty-four
guns, viz.,

Hartford steamer, 28 guns 1st class sloop.
Richmond, " 28 " "
Brooklyn, " 28 " "
Pensacola, " 28 " "
Mississippi, " 21 " "
Iroquois, " 10 " 2d class sloop.
Oneida, " 10 " "
Verona, " 11 " "
Cayuga, " 5 " "
Penola, " 5 "