Miscellaneous Back Matter [pp. 472A-RD06]

THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY.
I will not pursue the disgraceful subject. Has Kentucky passed out of the control of her own people? Shall hirelings of the pen, recently imported from the
North, sitting in grand security at the capitol, force public opinion to approve
these usurpations and point out victims? Shall Mr. Lincoln, through his Gcrmnan
mercenaries, imprison or exile the children of the men who laid the foundation of
the commonwealth, and compel our noble people to exhaust themselves in furnishing the money to destroy their own freedom? Never, while Kentucky remains the
Kentucky of old! Never, while thousands of her gallant sons have the will and
the nerye to make the State sing to the music of their rifles!
In order that it may be put upon record against what odds the little forts
at Port Royal were recently called upon to contend, and which they did so
gallantly and, as might have been known, fruitlessly contend, we give an
account of the Yankee armament engaged:
WAR VESS ELS.
Steaierst.-Flag-ship Wabash, 58 guns; ship Minnesota, 57; ship Roannoke, 54.
S iliny Vessels.-Frigate St. Lawrence, 50 guns; sloop-of-war Vandalia, 20;
sloop-of-war Jamestown, 22; sloop-of-war Cumberland, 24; sloop-of-war Savannah,
24; sloop-of-war Dale, 16.
Giiiobouts. —Albatross, Alabama, Augusta, Curlew, Dale, Florida, Harriet Lane,
Iroquois, Isaace Smith, J ames Adger, Mohican, Mount Vernon, New London,
Ottowa, Pawnee, Pembina, Penguin, Pocahontas, Quaker City, R. B. Forbes,
Seminole, Seneca, Unadilla, Yankee, Young America.
The gunboats generally carry a eleven-inch Dahlgren forward. and are armed
besides with one rifled gun and from two to four twenty-four pounders.
FRRIY BOATS.
The ferry boats are capable of carrying from five hundred to nine hundred men,
and are generally armed with six guns each. The following is the list of those sent
with the expedition:
Baltimore, Commodore Perry, Eagle. Ellen, Ethan Allen, Mayflower, Philadelphia, Pocahontas, Star, Stepping Stone and Whitehall.
TRANSPORTrS.
Steasie)-s.-Ariel, 1,296 tons; Atlantic, 2,815; Alabama, 1,261; Baltic, 2,723;
Belvidere, 1,000; Ben Deford, 1,080; Champion,; Cahawba, 1,643; Coatzacoalcos, 1,500; Dinsiel Webster, 1,035; I)e Sot(, 1,675; Empire City, ],751; Ericsson,
1,902; Florida, 1,261; Illinlois, 2,123; Locust Point, 462; Marion, 800; Matanlzas,
875; Mercedia, 1,070; Ocean Queen, 2,802; Oriental, 1,000; Parkersburg, 715; Philadelphia, 1,238; Potomac, 448; Roanoke, 1,071; Santiago de Cuba, 1,850: Spalding,
; Star of the South, 960; Vanderbilt, 3,360; Winfield Scott,
SAILING VESSELS.
Great Republic, 3,356 tons; Ocean Express, 1,697; Courier,; Zenas Coffin,
338; Golden Eagle, 1,128; Gem of the Seas,
All of the transports are fully armed, and have a crew on board to work the guns.
Several transports were added to the fleet at Fortress Monroe, and the entire Atlantic squadron will co-operate with the expedition.
The expedition consists, in all, of eighty vessels. Of these, three are steam frigates,
six others atre sailing men-of-war, twenty-six are gunboats, twelve ferry boats, and
thirty steam and six sailing transports.
TROOPS.
These vessels carry, besides their full crews, a force of about thirty thousand
soldiers-half of them the best trained troops of General McClellan's commanld. The
cry that the army of General McClellan needed more men, which has for so imany
weeks vexed impatient souls, is iow expllained. It AUas not our land forces, but our
nav,al expedition that needed more imeii. Vhen troops went on to WNashing,ton it
was only that othelirs, better drilled and more experienced, might be sent to Asnnapolis in readiness to embark in the ships of the expedition. Thus, from time to time,
by the patriotic readiness of the people to respond to a call, the precise purport of
which they did not quite comprehend, our gallant General was enabled to dletach
from his army a large force of' the I)est soldiers he had. We need not say that
these troops are well armed and ably officered. Neither care nor expense have
been spaLrei to malie their outfit complete-in arms of all kinds, in great guns, shot,
shell, ammtunition, and all the paraphernalia of war.
The enemy occupy," says a cotemporary, "the captured batteries at
Port loyal. They have not ventured out in force. Occasionally a boat
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