[36] Lieutenant-Commander Perkins and the executive officer of the Chickasaw, Volunteer Lieutenant William Hamilton, were going North from other ships on leave of absence, the latter on sick leave, but had offered their services for the battle. The fire of the Chickasaw was the most damaging to the Tennessee. In her engagement with the ram she fired fifty-two XI-inch solid shot, almost all into the stern, where the greatest injury was done. The Metacomet went to Pensacola that night under a flag of truce with the wounded from the fleet and the Tennessee, and was taken out by the pilot of the latter. He asked Captain Jouett who commanded the monitor that got under the ram's stern, adding: "D——n him! he stuck to us like a leech; we could not get away from him. It was he who cut away the steering gear, jammed the stern port shutters, and wounded Admiral Buchanan."
[37] It is not easy to fix the exact times of particular occurrences from the notes taken in the heat of action by different observers, with watches not necessarily running together; yet a certain measure of duration of the exciting events between 7 and 10 A.M. in this battle seems desirable. From a careful comparison of the logs and reports the following table of times has been compiled:
| Fort Morgan opened | 7.07 A.M. |
| Brooklyn opened with bow guns | 7.10 A.M. |
| Fleet generally with bow guns | 7.15 A.M. |
| Fleet generally with broadside guns | 7.30-7.50 A.M. |
| Tecumseh sunk | 7.45 A.M. |
| Hartford took the lead | 7.52 A.M. |
| Hartford casts off Metacomet | 8.05 A.M. |
At this time the rest of the fleet were about a mile astern of the flag-ship, crossing the lines of torpedoes, and the Tennessee turned to attack them.
| Tennessee passed rear ship (Oneida) | 8.20 A.M. |
| Hartford anchored | 8.35 A.M. |
| Tennessee sighted coming up | 8.50 A.M. |
| Monongahela rammed | 9.25 A.M. |
| Lackawanna rammed | 9.30 A.M. |
| Hartford | 9.35 A.M. |
| Tennessee surrendered | 10.00 A.M. |
| Killed. | Wounded. | |
| Hartford | 25 | 28 |
| Brooklyn | 11 | 43 |
| Lackawanna | 4 | 35 |
| Oneida | 8 | 30 |
| Monongahela | 0 | 6 |
| Metacomet | 1 | 2 |
| Ossipee | 1 | 7 |
| Richmond | 0 | 2 |
| Galena | 0 | 1 |
| Octorara | 1 | 10 |
| Kennebec | 1 | 6 |
[39] The Tensaw branches off from the Alabama thirty miles up, and the whole really forms a bayou, or delta, system.