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Re: Confederate Battery Destroyed By USS Mound Cit

Volume 24 of the Naval Official Records only indicates that a Confederate company of artillerists had occupied an unnamed casemated water battery at Warrenton, which was fired upon, and destroyed by the USS MOUND CITY. As Admiral Porter's dispatch indicates: "Thus ended a fort in the space of an hour which had taken the rebels five months to build, working mostly day and night." [ORN Volume 24, page 664.]

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