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Lieutenant HALLETT:

Establish your camp for men and animals inside the ridge.

A. J. MYER,

Colonel.

Lieutenant HALLETT:

Tell the chief carpenter to put the men at work on the tower and then wait at camp until he sees me.

A. J. MYE,

Colonel.

Lieutenant HALLETT:

Send two carepenters to report to Lieutenant Sizer. Have team ready to haul one tower across the island.

A. J. MYER,

Colonel.

Lieutenant SIZER:

Apply for detail of twenty men to aid in building tower. Have them at your station by 8 a. M. Four with axes.

A. J. MYER,

Colonel.

Lieutenant SIZER:

Try to open with the Bienville to-day.

A. J. MYER,

Colonel.

Lieutenant HALLETT:

Get Lieutenant Harris to signal this boat as soon as he arrives.

A. J. MYER,

Colonel.

Lieutenant DENICKE:

8 a. M. - Send boat ashore for dispatches for General Granger.

SIZER,

Lieutenant.

General GRANGER:

7.30 p. M. - No, sir. I have sent one to Pensacola this mornign with Admiral Buchanan and the wounded of both sides.

FARRAGUT,

Admiral.

Colonel GRIER:

Have you any troops on Little Dauphin Island?

GRANGER,

General.

Lieutenant BURNHAM,

Battery:

Send me a report of progress. How do the details work?

M. D. McALESTER,

Captain.

Admiral FARRAGUT:

I have sent fifty men to occupy Little Dauphin Island.

GRANGER,

General.

General GRANGER:

When is a boat going to New Orleans to-day?

McGINNIS,

General.

The Tamaulipes starts at 12 a. M.

G. GRANTER,

General.


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