On board ourselves, only two slightly wounded.
After the action had been over an hour or more, and whilst I was steaming off on my course, it was reported to me that a boat of the enemy, containing an acting master and five men, which had been lowered before we opened fire upon him, to board "Her Majesty's steamer Petrel," had escaped.

As the sea was smooth and the wind blowing gently towards the shore, distant only about nineteen miles, this boat probably reached the shore in safety in five or six hours.

The night was clear and starlit, and it would have no difficulty in shaping its course.

But for these circumstances, I should have turned back to look for it, hopeless as this task must have proved in the dark.

The weather continued moderate all night, and the wind to blow on shore.
It was ascertained that Galveston had been retaken by us, and that the Brooklyn and four of the enemy's steam-sloops were off the port, awaiting a reinforcement of three other ships from New Orleans to cannonade the place.