We are not aware that any authentic report has been
published of the number of rebels killed during the siege at Forts Jackson and St.
Philip. The officers of Fort Jackson
informed our correspondent that they had fifteen killed and thirty five
wounded. From the officers of Fort St.
Philip he learned that only one man was killed and three wounded by our
shot. The loss on the Confederate
gunboats is set down as follow[s]: Louisiana, one killed and two wounded,
including McIntosh, her commander, severely; Manassas, none; McRae, eight
killed and three wounded, including Huger, her commander; Gov. Moore, fifty
killed and fourteen wounded. The Captain
of the Resolute, Hooper, was mortally wounded.
The other steamers lost about twenty each. Making the total in killed and wounded of
nearly four hundred, according to the rebel accounts. – {Boston Journal.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1
