Lieutenant Madden, slightly wounded.
Captain McMahan, slightly wounded.
Property captured by the enemy was as follows: the Harriet Lane with her fine battery, the guns on the Westfield, three sailing vessels loaded with coal, viz., Arthur, Cavallo and Elias Pike—these vessels were said to have been burned by the navy, or set on fire—one set regimental colors, one garrison flag, arms and ammunition, tents, intrenching tools, commissary supplies, and quartermaster stores of clothing, etc., etc., that the detachment carried to Galveston.
The garrison flag was afterwards found upon a Confederate Texan soldier, made prisoner at Thibodeaux by Lieutenant Alf. Halstead, Company K, One Hundred and Seventy-Sixth New York Infantry, on the twenty-third June, 1863, a few days after the action at La-Fourche Crossing, in which a detachment of the Forty-Second Regiment took part. This soldier had got possession of the flag, and carefully preserved it. By request of Lieutenant Halstead the flag was forwarded to Governor John A. Andrew, to be placed among other State mementos of the war.
On the day of surrender the following vessels, with reënforcements and military stores, were on the way to Galveston. Had the action been delayed one week quite a respectable military force would have been assembled upon the island.
Transport steamer Cambria, with Governor Hamilton and troops.
Transport steamer Honduras, with detachment First Vermont Battery, Captain Hibbard.
Transport steamer Charles Osgood, with two companies Forty-Second Regiment.
Transport steamer Che-Kiang, with three companies Forty-Second Regiment, one company Texas cavalry, and a number of Texas refugees.
The Honduras and Charles Osgood were spoken in the Gulf by gunboat Clifton, and returned to New Orleans. The Che-Kiang lay at the United States Barracks below New Orleans January 3d, ready to proceed the next day, when the news was telegraphed from the Passes, and her orders were countermanded. The Cambria arrived off Galveston January 2d, and was fortunate to escape capture from well-laid plans of General Magruder.