The carriage was rosewood, and the mountings gilt brass.

The breech of the gun had five reinforcements.
To attack this place our Government assembled the most powerful fleet ever sent on such an expedition.

Over seventy-five men-of-war, including six monitors, and carrying six hundred guns, assailed it with a storm of shot and shell that averaged four projectiles per second for several hours; the parapet was battered, and the large guns crushed as one smashes a bottle with a stone.

The garrison fled into the bomb-proofs for protection.

The troops, who had landed above the fort, moved up to assail the land face, while a brigade of sailors and marines attacked the sea face.
As the fleet had to cease firing to allow the charge, the Rebels ran out of their casemates and, manning the parapet, opened such a fire of musketry that the brigade from the fleet was driven back, but the soldiers made a lodgment on the land face.