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NAVY, U. S., OPERATIONS OF. 



PHILIP 



A, B, C, D, &c., are points on the left bank, and 1, 2, 3, 4, 

 &c., points on the right bank of the river, established for 

 placing the gunboats and mortar boats in position. 



The position of the mortar flotilla on the first day of the 

 bombardment, April 18th, was as follows: Six mortars on 

 the left bank between C and J, distance to Fort Jackson 

 8,630 to 4,500 yards ; fourteen mortars on the right bank, 

 from 1 to 5, distance to Fort Jackson 2,850 to 8,490 yards. 



On the 19th, the second day of the bombardment, they 

 were all on the right bank, and twenty mortars were placed 

 distant from Fort Jackson 8,010 to 4,100 yards. They re- 

 mained on the third and fourth days nearly in the same po- 

 sition. All the large armed steamers and gunboats were 

 placed from one quarter to one and a. quarter miles below 

 the lowest mortar vessel. 



On the first day the small steam sloops and the gunboats 

 went to abreast of the Smoke stack, where they engaged the 

 forts and the Confederate steamers. 





Stack; 



