PENSACOLA HARBOR FROM THE BAR. FROM A SKETCH MADE IN MAY, 1862.

WITH SLEMMER IN PENSACOLA HARBOR.
BY. J. H. GILMAN, BREVET LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, U. S. A. ##

WILLIAM CONWAY, THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO HAUL DOWN THE UNION FLAG AT THE PENSACOLA NAVY YARD. FROM A SKETCH FROM LIFE BY WILLIAM WAUD.

ENTERING Pensacola Harbor from the Gulf of Mexico, one sees as he crosses the bar, immediately to his left, Fort McRee on the mainland, or west shore of the bay, and to his right Fort Pickens on the western extremity of Santa Rosa Island, which is about forty miles in length, nearly parallel to the shore of the mainland, and separated from it by Pensacola Bay. On the mainland, directly opposite Fort Pickens, about a mile and a half from it and two miles north-east of Fort McRee, stands Fort Barrancas, and, now forming a part of it, the little old Spanish fort, San Carols de Barrancas. About a mile and a half east of this is the village of Warrington, adjoining the Navy Yard, and seven miles farther up the bay is the town in Pensacola. Near Fort Barrancas, and between it and the Navy Yard, is the post of Barrances Barracks, and there, in January, 1861, was stationed Company G, 1st United States Artillery, the sole force of the United States army in the harbor to guard and hold, as best it might, the property of the United States. The captain of this company, John H. Winder (afterward brigadier-general in the Confederate army, and widely known in connection with the military prisons in the South), and the senior first lieutenant, A. R. Eddy, were absent

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## Lieut. Slemmer's report says of Lieut. Gilman: "During the whole affair we have stood side by side, and if any credit is due for the course pursued, he is entitled [to it] equally with myself."-EDITORS.
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