All
officers and men behaved gallantly. One officer was killed
and three wounded; eight men were killed and twenty wounded.
"About 200 men and ten officers were in the firing line. I
attribute the comparatively small losses to the skill and
bravery of the company officers, viz.: First Lieutenant
Caldwell and Second Lieutenants Moss and Hunt. Second
Lieutenant French, adjutant of the battalion, was among
those who gallantly entered the fort.
"The battle lasted about two hours and was a hotly contested
combat. Very respectfully,
"A.S. DAGGETT,
"Lieutenant-Colonel, Twenty-fifth Infantry, Commanding."
Here it is shown by the testimony of the regimental commander, that a
battalion of the Twenty-fifth ascended the hill and arrived at a short
distance from the fort about twenty minutes before any other troops
are mentioned as coming in sight; and that a white flag was waved to
the companies of the Twenty-fifth. It was doubtless upon this ground
that a captain of the Twenty-fifth had the temerity to claim the
capture of the place, even from a Major-General. I do not know who the
captain was, but it is evident that he had what he believed ample
grounds for his claim. Colonel Daggett says, also, that when the men
of the other regiment advanced to this fort after it had waved the
white flag to the companies of the Twenty-fifth, the men of the
Twenty-fifth advanced and entered the fort at the same time.
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