January 14.—To-day an engagement took place on the Bayou Teche, La., between four Union gunboats, under the command of Commodore Buchanan, assisted by a force of troops, under General Weitzel, and the iron-clad rebel steamer J. A. Cotton, assisted by a body of rebel troops, under the command of Colonel Gray, resulting, after a contest of several hours’ duration, in the destruction of the rebel iron-clad. Commodore Buchanan was killed in this action by a rebel sharp-shooter.—(Doc. 106.)
—The steamer Forrest Queen was captured and burned by guerrillas at Commerce, Miss., this evening.—The National gunboat Queen of the West, under the command of Colonel Charles E. Ellet, commanding the ram fleet in Western waters, while on a reconnoissance on the Red River, was fired on, near Gordon’s Landing, by a battery of four guns, and subsequently captured by the rebels.—(Doc. 105.)
