Year: 1866

Many other men were slightly hurt by the
lnnumerable small fragments which fell within
the casemate, and l may say that not single
person or thing was untouched by them.


The part of the starboard side of the casemate
comprehended between the sternmost port and
the third is all started, and, according to the
opinion OF the first engineer, could not resist
similar battering again without giving way.
Five of the seven men wounded we're hurt by
fragme of iron. Nine shots struck around
the sternmost port, parting the first plate below,
penetrating two and one.half inches, and driving
in the plates half an inch. Eleven struck
around the second port, driving the plates in
wards starting the corners and the iron lining
inside between the first and third ports, pene-
trating three and u half and one and quarter
inches, and parting one of the plates into three
pieces. Six round the third port, penetrating
one and one and a half inches driving plate
half inch lnWards and starting all the rest. One
struck to the rear OF the gangway port, on the
first plate above the water line, entering one
and a half inch, parting IL and driving it in a
half inch.


One forward of the gangway port on the first
plate OF the water-line, entering one and a halt
inch, parting the plate, aad driving 1t in half
inch. One on another first plate, penetrating
half inch, and driving the plate in one and
half inch. One at the water line, penetrating
one inch, and driving in the plate three-eighths
inch. Sixteen others struck in various places
other than the plating, one of which cut up the
deck over the cascmate, traversing ten blanks,
and entering as tar as the lining plate, which
It started. Seven halt shutters were destroyed,
and seven more damaged. The Brdzu was
about tour hours close to the battery, forcing
the s 'ade a little after noon. The BdrrOSo
forced the stockade Immediately after the
Brdza and anchored above her between one
and two cables lengths of the Fort remaining
until twenty minutes past p. NJ.


OF the shot which struck the casemate two
made depressioDs of two inches depth in the
plates struck, and drove them in one and seven
eighths. and two and oneeighth inches; an
other at the water line entered one and one
half inch, and drove the plate in half an inch;
two above the portfolios; one on sternmost star
board corner, making an irregular dent An
other struck the hatch over the engine-room
forward OF the casemate, parted the grating
and wounded two tremen severely with splin-
ters; three the chimney, and six the deck.
BESIDES the two hremen, two other men were
slightly wounded. Two kinds of shot came on
board; one spherical sixty-eight the other re-
sembling the Minessinger pattern, with steel
points and six Vpiral hanges. This, however
was notlced by the commander to have
motion like double-headed shot, and to strike
sometimes with the point and sometimes with
the rear, as was also recognized in the appear.
ance of the indentations made.


The Idmdnddre also forced the stockade but
her report is not yet published. She had the
starooard side of the casemate severely battered
and started. She had one killed and four
wounded


The Lima Balros and Bahia remained below
the stockade. The former had the iron column
supporting the captains casemate broken aud
its thick wooden top traversed, splinters wound
ing the captain slightly. Four shots struck the
side, three the towers, one traversed the engine.
room grating, and others did damage in other
parts. She tired one hundred and i've smooth
shots and twenty-five shells. Besides the captain,
seaman was wounded severely in the arm.


The Bahia dism0unted one and disabled
another OF the enemys 68-pounders. She was
struck by nineteen 6S-pound shot-eight on the
sides, three on the turret, four on it's covering
three in the stack, and one on the capstan. She
had three men slightly wounded-one inside the
tower by splinter from ball which owed
above the rig hit gun.


The apparatus fixed 10 the Tdmdnddre by Mr..
Tombs for preventing the explosion OF torpe-
does, there had been no opportunity to try.
The Admiral does not approve of uets in so wide
a river as the Paraguay, which is there seven
hundred yards wide, and besides the danger of
breaking and entanglmg in the screws of the
vessels, they required to be fastened to the bank
which was in possession of the enemy. He pre-
ferred keeping boats out to drag the torpedoes
away. Twenty were thus prevented from ex-
nlO0inP near the vessels.