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Report (in the middle of this page) of Major Watkins, C. S. Army, (Confederate) commanding on the Sabine River, to Captain Edmund P. Turner, (Confederate) Assistant Adjutant-General. This report is in Volume 19 of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion.

On Board the C.S. Gunboat Bell,

Sabine Pass, Texas, January 21, 1863

CAPTAIN: We met the enemy this morning in the Gulf of Mexico. We whipped them and brought everything to Sabine Pass. I fought them ten guns to our one, my officers and men behaving nobly. We have captured two vessels - one of them a full-rigged ship, and the other a schooner - twelve fine guns, medical stores, and ammunition in abundance, together with 109 prisoners.

Very Respectfully

O. M. Watkins,

Major and Assistant-General, Comdg. on the Sabine

Captain Edmund P.Turner,,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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