It was resolved, however, to use this, and seven of the heavy barbette guns of the fort, thirty-two pounders, were at once manned and prepared for action. Four rounds of seven guns each were fired.

F.D. Blake, Lieut. Jones and Lieut. Julius Rhett, (a volunteer absent from Preston's Battery Light Artillery on sick leave.) The northeast barbette battery was officered by Capt. Harleston ...