Within a few hours the fort's scarp began to collapse, and in late afternoon the Confederate commander, Colonel Moses J. White, ordered the raising of a white flag.
数時間の内に砦の傾斜面が崩壊し始め、午後遅くに南軍の指揮官モーゼス・J・ホワイト大佐が白旗を揚げるよう命じた。