New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-10-11
Further Particulars from Pensacola.
ETAns OF THE ATTACK ON SANTA ROSA 1sLASB
ZOUAvES' lGNOMlNlCUs FLieHT.
The Release of Lieutenant Slaughter.
LEY THE SOUTHERN ESE.I

NOZZLE, Oct. 10, 1s61.-The special correspond.
ent of the Mobile Advertiser, writing last evening
wednesday, at Pensacola, sends the following
details Of the night attack of our forces on Santa
Rosa Island:
There were hoo men in the expedition, under
Brig.-Gen. Runnels. They crossed over TO the
island at O'Clock on the morning of Wednesday.
At 20 minutes past 4, the first gun was fred and
in 46 minutes all that was left of the numerous
camps, the extensive commissary buildings that
had been erected there, was but one mass of
smouldering ruins. The hospital structure is the
only building now standing upon the Island of
Santa Rosa
Wilson's New York Zouaves) camp was the
first one reached. The sentinels completely sur
prised, were either killed or captured, and the
whole regiment. with its chief, found safety only
in rapid flight beyond the eastern walls of Fort
Pickens. The scenes, which occurred when this
camp was invaded, are described as being ludi-
crous beyond description or belief.
The gallant Colonel took to his heels with moth
ing but brief skirted neither garment to cover his
nakedness, and the race between him and his
valiant braves presented struggle for precedence,
more closely contested than any ever witnessed
over the race course. Bulls Run was as nothing
in comparison with it.
Our men pursued the fugitives with determine
ton, pausing now and then to fire building or
encampment, or to drive rat tad file in the touch
holes of the huge cannon that met them at almost
every step. They advanced to within mile OF
Pckens. Not gun from the ramparts was fred
to check the advancing column; while the nearest
sentinels including those on the very mound that
goes down to the heavy swinging gates of the
fortress, were sent to their long account.
| The expedition having succeeded beyond the
| hopes of tie most sanguine, our forces turned
eastward. On their return, corpse after corpse OF
| the enemy met their view, while many were badly
| wounded.
Not gun, all this time had been fred from the
| fleet whose presence and whose menaces have SC
long insulted u.s.
Our troops were on the Island from until
in the morning. The boats engaged in the expedi
ton were towed back by the steamers Ewing
| Time and Neafe.
Of the Confederates dozen or more were
killed, and twenty nine were wounded. The latter
are now in the hospital at Pensacola.
Among the killed are Capt. Bradford, of Flori
da, and Lieut.. Nelms, of Georgia. The latter, al
Adjntant Of one of the Georgia regiments dice
just as the boat, on its return, reached the wharf
A braver or more chivalrc gentleman and soldier
never breathed. Lieut.. Sayre, a volunteer aid tt
Gen. Anderson, was shot through the hip.
Some of our exhausted men were probably over
looked and left on the Island. Major Yogdes, U
S. A, and some thirty other Federals, are prison
| ers in our hands.
Lieut.. Slaughter, of the Mobile Continentals
who was taken prisoner while bearing a white fla
| to Fort Pickens, has been released.