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19. The guns at Fort Walker are very large, four of them rifled The Fort was surrounded by a wide ditch in the bottom of which were stakes driven into the ground and sharpened besides this at each angle were rifle pits. These rifle pits are pieces timber drove into the ground making a sort of pen through the walls of which are holes for rifles -- They are in the ditch itself and rake it. The ditch is about 18 feet deep, 8 ft width at the bottom and 20 are the top -- The Rebels had perfect confidence in their ability to hold their position and thought they could sink a hundred ships but the tremendous fire of the Wabash assisted by the Seminole, Pawnee, Susquehanna, Mississippi and the gun-boats they could not stand. All this part of the island is covered with the shells which they threw [struck out] were thrown by our flight [inserted] I wish I could send you some of the Fragments of which lay scattered around some of the two or three miles from the fort. The island is level and they were able to discern the Rebels in their flight -- Large numbers were killed. I have heard some one say that a hundred have been buried by our forces since we landed but I do not know the truth of it -- You will learn [inserted] many particulars better than I can give them to you by the papers as I have not the appointment to ascertain facts and figures I know that our troops [inserted] were picking up dead men in all directions for several days after