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December lW, 18A, BATTLE IN
MISSISSIPPI SOUND OFF KALHEURF.UX ISLAND DESCRIBED AS "ENGLISH 7.00K0UT" ON PEARL RIVER ISLAND 12 YEARS LATER 1886
BRITISH AND AMERICAN DEAD BURIED ON EAST BAN}: OF PEARL RIVER ON INDIAN ?''OUND IN HANCOCK COUNTY
Source:	N.	0. "Times-Democrat" republished as "THE GULF COAST”
descriptive letters of R. A. Wilkinson by Passenger Department Louisville <5: Nashville R. R. 1886
V’ar of I8l? — December lUT l8lU
The fcld Lookout Point vas in 8 cluster of pines vhich grew on a large nound a fev yards east of the present Louisville &
Nashville Railroad track.
The pines and most of the mound are now gone. The old settlers say that cone of the trees were blown down in the "Last Island Storm," August 10, 1856, and that the others and! most of the material of the iround were used in railroad construction in more recent years.
• The place is in sight of the scenes of the first serious conflict in the fierce struggle for the capture of New Orleans in the ’-Jar of 1812. On the morning of December iW, l3lU. a flotilla of Admiral Cochrane's fleet, which, only a short time before, had aided in the capture and burning of Washington, left Ship Island for near Kalheureux Island near the mouth of the Rigolets to attack there the little American squadron that, under the command of lieutenants Jones and Parker, vas placed for the defense of the straits and the channel into Lake Pontchartrain.
American history says that the British fleet consisted of forty-three barges, mounting forty-three cannon, and manned by tvalva hundred men, and the Americans had only five barges, with as many cannons, and one hundred nnd eighty-five men.
After a terrific conflict the American commander vas severely wounded and all his boats vere destroyed or captured, the assailants losing over three hundred men before they achieved their victory. Of our forces, but ten were killed and thirty-fivs wounded. These figures night be altered after access to th« archives of the British Var Office, but as these are nt present inaccessible, a reliance must be placed upon our own government’s