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The Smoky Hill And Republican Union
Junction City, Geary County, Kansas
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The Navy Department received reports from New Orleans commanders detailing damage to forts from bombardment: 7500 shells fired, causing destruction of drawbridge, furnaces, cisterns, flooding of casemates, burned platforms, cracked structures, and damage to guns and carriages.
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The Navy Department has received full reports from commanders at New Orleans; accompanied by elaborate plans of the forts as they appeared after the bombardment.
Out of 7500 shells thrown, 1100 were counted in the solid ground of the fort; 1100 exploded in the air above the forts; 3300 in ditches and overflowed portions of the fort. The draw bridge, hot shot furnaces and cistern are completely destroyed.
All the casemates and passages were filled with water, the levee having been cut. Platforms for tents had been burned up. The casemates were cracked from end to end, and the roofs of many broken in.
Four guns were dismounted, and eleven gun-carriages and traverses injured.
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New Orleans
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draw bridge, hot shot furnaces and cistern completely destroyed; casemates and passages filled with water; platforms for tents burned up; casemates cracked from end to end, roofs of many broken in; four guns dismounted, eleven gun-carriages and traverses injured.
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Navy Department received full reports from commanders at New Orleans with plans of forts after bombardment. Out of 7500 shells thrown, 1100 counted in solid ground, 1100 exploded in air above forts, 3300 in ditches and overflowed portions. Levee cut causing flooding.