Excerpt from Report of the Secretary of the Navy, With an Appendix: Containing Reports From Officers, December 1863 The report of the superintending engineer as to the injuries which the turreted vessels had sustained was satisfactory, and confirmed the government in its determination to close effectually and completely the port, so as to prevent the ingress or egress of a single vessel, and also to promote operations against the defences in the harbor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.