The damage, however, beyond what could be repaired by a small expenditure of money, was slight, except to the Essex.

A shell penetrated the boiler of that vessel and exploded it, killing and wounding forty-eight men, nineteen of whom were soldiers who had been detailed to act with the navy.

On several occasions during the war such details were made when the complement of men with the navy was insufficient for the duty before them.

After the fall of Fort Henry Captain Phelps, commanding the iron-clad Carondelet, at my request ascended the Tennessee River and thoroughly destroyed the bridge of the Memphis and Ohio Railroad..