FEDERAL.
| Guns. | |
| Richmond | 25 |
| Hartford | 28 |
| Brooklyn | 26 |
| Iroquois | 7 |
| Oneida | 10 |
| Wissahickon | 4 |
| Sciota | 3 |
| Winona | 4 |
| Pinola | 4 |
| Katahdin | 6 |
| Kennebec | 4 |
CONFEDERATE.
Triple line of earthworks at Vicksburg, mounting about 30 guns.
At 4 a.m. the squadron, steaming up the river in double line ahead (large ships inside with the smaller ones abreast the intervals), came under the fire of the enemy at a distance of 600 yards. The rate of steaming was about three miles per hour. Three ships (Brooklyn, Kennebec, and Katahdin) failed to pass. The Brooklyn, getting fouled with the mortar flotilla, was detained, and under a misapprehension of orders stopped to silence the battery, and dropped down after daylight. The Kennebec held her position astern of the Brooklyn. The Katahdin, having no orders at all, followed the motions of the Brooklyn. Casualties in the part of the squadron which passed: killed, 15; wounded, 30. Duration, two hours; distance gone while under fire, three miles.
Passage of Forts, Mississippi River,
March 14, 1863.
FEDERAL.
WOODEN SQUADRON.
| Guns. | |
| Hartford | 28 |
| Richmond | 25 |
| Monongahela | 14 |
| Mississippi | 19 |
| Albatross | 7 |
| Genesee | 8 |
| Kineo | 6 |
CONFEDERATE.
Earthworks at Port Hudson.—A line of earthworks extending at intervals a distance of about three miles, and mounting 70 guns, most all of heavy calibre.