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Historic Fort Gaines - Dauphin Island - MSN
Fort Gaines only had 26 guns to attack the Union with, and 818 men, while the Union had 5,500 men in total and 199 guns. On the 8th of August, ...
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OFFICIAL DISPATCH.; The Capitulation of Fort Gaines--26 Guns, 874 Prisoners and Stores for a Year Surrendered, Reports from Sheridan and Grant. FORT POWELL ... - The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Aug. 16. To Maj. Gen. John A. Dix: The following official report of the surrender of Fort Gaines and the abandonment of Fort Powell, dated Aug. 9, New-Orleans, has just been ...