Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-11-21

kGDAY, NUV EMBER ", 1861.
This ship lost six in killed and two other
dfsi1-r gallant fellows were wounded
10 Z our correspondent regrets that he is un-
Issttle to furnish the names of the killed and
/ 9Wounded.
Is The flag ship Wabash escaped with only
9trifing injury. Her mainmast was, to use
3ilavy parlance, badly wounded" by round
Fhot
+ The Pocahontas had but one man injured.
j !. The Chief Engineer of the Mohican was,
as before stated. killed, and an Assistant
Engineer of the Pocahontas is reported to
lave been badly injured, if not killed.
I.she Rebels Set Trap but it Misses Fire.
Is When our brave fellows landed to take
Ip IS 'ssion of the forts they found the Rebel
flag at the fort ON Hilton Head still flying,
and just as one Of our men pulled at the
llalyards to draw down the traitorous banner
an explosion took place in the house just
vacated by the Rebel officers, but doing but
little damage and injuring no one It was
found on examination that they had, before
evacuating the place, arranged what they
thought would prove deadly trap to the
victors, Mines had been laid and matches
50 arranged that when the halyards of the
Gag should be drawn down by our troops
the mines would be sprung, firing the maga-
zines, and blow up the whole work, and in
volve the yictors in the common ruin But
lit did not go off, and soon the brave old
ag-We Stars and Suipes-waved in
triumph from the Rebel flagstaff
The magazines were found to contain a
large quantity of powder and vast quanti-
fty Of ammunition, shot and she'll, and vari-
Eous descriptions of projectiles, the latter
chiefly Of English manufacture.
Two small brass cannon, with the Rebel
flags captured, and other articles convent
ent of transportation, were selected as tro-
phies, and sent to Washington to the Secre-
tary of the Navy.
The Susquehanna had three men woun-
ded..
The list Of casualties, as befoee stated,
gives only eight killed and some twenty
wounded, only a small portion of whom were
considered seriously or dangerously hurt.
All the wounded were doing we'll and the
great part would be sent home in few days.
The town of Beaufort was found, as before
stated, completely deserted, except by ne
gxe M - I = acs;, Mod tSLas,
thehTHg uneIr POSITION and occupying
ints which enable them fully to command
s de place. 1t was, however, virtually in
our possession, the Rebel troops having en-
tirely abandoned it, and when our gunboats
visited the place they met no obstruction or
opposition whatever.
Additional Particulars.
1.-The New York Tribune's Special Account.l
New York, Nov, 13.-The Tribune S
special account from Port Royal says:
The Wabash led the attack, the steamer
lsBlenville fanking the movement, which was
3in circle, first delivering broadsides into
Fort Beauregard on the northwest, and as
the heet came round raking Fort Walker
on the southwest.
Both forts responded vigorously. and the
Pawnee and Mohican having for the time
got aground were considerably damaged.
The bombardment lasted four or five hours,
when the enemy suddenly retreated.
The Rebels loss is supposed to have been
two hundred
I General Drayton commanded at Fort
Walker, and Colonel Elliott at Fort Beau
regard.
The Rebels retreated across Skull Greek
to village twenty five miles in the interior.
where, it is supposed, they intend to make
a stand.
The negroes had already begun to pillage
and destroy in Beaufort The white popu-
ation all fled to Charleston by small steam
ers by the inside route.
Gen. Sherman has already hundreds, pro-
bably thousands, of negro laborers at work.
A great panic had seized the inhabitants
OF Savannah, and it was believed the cap
hre OF that city would be easy.
1t Is understood that General Sherman
will improve the defences of his position be-
ore making any forward movement.
In the forts captured was found large
lupply OF ammunition and stores of the best
description
Commodore Dupont will Immediately sur
1!!ey the harbor and place buoys and erect
aghts, and the position will thus be made
permanent base of operations.
Every one entered the fight with deter
mlnatlon that the forts should be silence;,
Enough it cost our entire feet.
I The feet stood between eight hundred
ma one thousand feet from the forts, used
hye-second fuses, and poured shells into them
s" the rate Of t1eo thousand per- hour!
Not single she'll sent by the Rebels
burst in any of our ships, and every ship in
the feet was in good fighting condition at
the termination of the contest, when the
Rebels took to their heels.
The Surgeon of Fort Walker was killed.
and at Charleston next day 13 minute guns
were fired, indicative Of the burial of
Brigadier.
Description of the Bstterics--The Mode of
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