on the shores of Louisiana and Texas.
After just thirty-eight minutes from the time Dowling ordered his men to fire the first shot, the white flag was seen to go up on the flagship Clifton. Lieutenant Dowling went aboard, accompanied by Dr. George H. Bailey, as a signal for a surgeon had been given by the enemy.
Commodore Crocker met them and surrendered his sword to Lieutenant Dowling. Dr. Bailey administered to the wounded and dying.
Later, Commodore Crocker came ashore and entered the fDr. Bailey administered to the wounded and dying.
Later, Commodore Crocker came ashore and entered the fort.
Imagine his surprise when he realized that there were only forty-two men in the fort.
The Confederates took as prisoners 490 men, seventy-two of whom were badly wounded.
The exact number of killed is not known, these, as contradistinguished from those who were drowned by the sinking of the Arizona, but has been estimated at fifty, most of whom were scalded to death by the explosion of the boiler on the gunboat Sachem when the shot struck it. Not a man on the Confederate side received a s
