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Re: CSS Pontchartrain (Lizzie Simmons)

Just a quick addenda. Just ran into a short report Dated June 25, 1862 authored by R.C.Newman, Colonel and Adjutant Chief of Staff for Headquarters, Trans Mississippi District, Little Rock, Arkansas. The document is cited as General Orders, No. 20. "...On June 17, the enemy attacked our position at Saint Charles, on White River. We had there, in battery, two 32-pounder guns and four field pieces, under command of Captain Joseph Fry and Captain (John W.) Dunnington, C.S. Navy, with seventy-nine men from the Confederate States gunboats "Maurepas" and "Pontchartrain", together with thirty-five infantry of the First Trans-Mississippi Regiment, under command of Captain M. Williams, Chief of the Corps of Engineers. Our whole force and armament, therefore, was 114 men and six guns. We had no fortifications - there was no time to construct them...our battery, which was necessarily abandoned, the guns being first spiked and made useless to the enemy..." The URL for the whole document is: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/union/military/everett-gw.txt

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