FEDERAL.
MONITORS.
| Guns. | |
| Passaic | 2 |
| Patapsco | 2 |
| Nahant | 2 |
CONFEDERATE.
Fort McAllister.—A strong earthwork containing seven heavy guns and one 11-inch mortar.
This attack was intended as a test of the strength of monitors to resist a heavy fire. The monitors moved up in line ahead and opened fire, continuing the action for eight hours at a distance of 1200 yards. The forts were not silenced. The Passaic was hit 9 times on the side-armor, no damage; 13 hits on the deck-plating, the deck being crushed through in three places; 5 hits on the turret, no damage; 2 on the pilot-house, no damage; 1 on the roof of the turret, breaking a beam; 4 through smoke-stack—34 hits in all; none killed or wounded.
Patapsco one hit on deck; no injury. Nahant no hits.
Earthworks at Fort Fisher,
December 24 and 25, 1864,
and January 13 and 14, 1865.
FEDERAL.
CONFEDERATE.