The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-08-19
THE FIGHT IN MOBILE BAY.

By the arrival of the United States mail steamer
Crtoie yesterday from New Orleans, We have ~
full details OF the recent attack the defences Of
Mobile by Admiral FaI1agut, showing that our
wooden vessels not only subdued the forts, but the
iron-clads of the encmy-in the OF the rebel
ram tennessee, which was compelled to surrender
to of our woodelA ships. 1t rumored III New
Orleans with what truth is not known, that General
BeaIreeard had gone TO the relief OF Atlanta with
twenty thousand men.
The New Orleans Times of the sth gives the par
ticulars OF the engagement off Mobile. The total
number of Federal vessels engaged i'll the fight was
eighteen, including three iron-clads;
Farraglif was lashed to the mantop Of the Hart
ford during the fight, and gave orders through a
speakng-tube. The Hartford sustained serious dam
age.
Higginbotham, secretary to the fleet captain, with
twenty of her crew, killed, and twenty six were
wounded The Hartford was injured by coliidine
with the steamer Meteeolnet-
The gunboat Oneida was struck by a shell from
the Tennessee, which passed through her boiler,
scalding thirty men. She was subsequently struck
by the Tennessee and nearly cut in two, and had to
run into shoal water to prevent sinking
Captain Levy, Of tho Oneida, Is reported to have
lost an arm The Tennessee is said to have
dered on account Of the Generalization of her
A Yankee lie. Captain G1faud now commands
the Tennessee.
The 11ises says their loss, including those lost
the Tecurnseh, is about two hundred and forty
They claim to have captured two hundred and htty
Fort Morgan is reported evacuated, which IS pro-
baby premature, before the last dispatch-boat
left the fleet it about being invested by body
of infantry, who marched from Pensacola for that
purpose. .
The Times also reports the steamer Sciota fired
into by guerrilas seven miles above Baton Rouge
Balls passed through her pilot-house, cabin and
kitchen No person was injured
We copy the following from Admiral Farragut's
official report:
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and finding myself raked by the rebel gunboats,
ordered the Metaeomet to cast off and go in pursuit
of them, one of which the Selma she succeeded in
capturing.
All the vessels had passed the forts by half-past
eight O'Clock, but the rebel ram tennessee was stl
apparently unnjured Ill our rear.
Signal was at once made to all the teet TO turn
again and attack the ram, not only with guns, but
with orders to run her down at full speed!
The Monongahela was the first that struck her,
and though she may have injured her badly, yet
she did not succeed in disabling her.
The Laekawanna also struck her, but Intellectually,
and the flagship gave her several shots with hel
bow guns, and she passed poured her whole port
pounds of posoder- at a distance Of not more than
ficelre feet
The iron-clads were closing upon her, and the
Hartford and the rest of the feet bearing down
upon her, when, at 10 A. M, she surrendered.
The rest Of the rebel fleet. viz: the Morgan and
Gaines, succeeded in getting back under the protec-
ton of Fort Morgan.
This terminated the action Of the day. Admiral
Buchanan sent me his sword, being himself badly
wounded with compound fracture of the leg, which
it is supposed will have to be amputated.