New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-10-17
The Santn Rosa AfYnir.

From the Mobile Advertiser we extract the fol-
lowing additional particulars of the 6ght on Santa
Rosa island:
PEHsA AcoLA, October lilo P.M.-Tt is stated
that Fort Pickens is being largely reinforced to-
night from the vessels which arrived to-day.
Our loss in the Santa Rosa expedition Is, so far
as now known, twenty.one killed, thirty eight
wounded and tw wenty-two taken prisoners.
The prisoners taken were principally those who
were detailed to guard the hospital of the enemy,
which was done Immediately On their being driven
from the field by our forces.
We have eighteen Linconites prisoners.
PENSACOLA, Thursday, October I0.-Col. Brown
will allow any comforts or neeessaries to be sent
over to our wounded and prisoners in his hands.
Our men in Pickens all speak we of their treat
ment by the enemy Our dead have been brought
over for burial. 81
The baggage of Major Vodges, our big prisoner,
was sent over this evening and as he has good ac-
commodations assigned him he can now make him.
self as comfortable as circumstances admit
Our Mobile artillery boys who went over with
only their side arms, back with four muskets,.
cartridges and other souvenirs Of the fray. =E
| The fight and victory of yesterday morning is
still the all-absorbing topic correct account is
hardly yet obtanable by outsiders at this place,
of the killed, wounded and missing, owing to the
dispersion of the troops, whose regiments are far
| apart. The expedition was composed ct detach-
ments from all the batalions Except the Mssissip-
| pians) of the command and hence the great diff
| Guilty of getting the names of officers and men
killed and wounded. Had the expedition been
| composed of regiments in full | could have had
| for this mornings Advertiser a complete list. 1
think however, reliable list will be furnished you
for the next issue. If I have heretofore done in
Justice to any brave man soldier in my letters
dispatches, trust they will attribute It to its true
| cause-ignorance or impossibility.
The expedition and its results are in the highest
| degree satisfactory whole, to General Bragg,
and had his instructions been Obeyed to the letter,
| scarcely q man of the enemy would nave been
| found on duty to-day at Fort Pickens. But the
| old General is TOO magnanimous to complain when
nearly all did their duty, and if he is satisfied why
should not others be. The featis one OF the bold
| est, most dashng aud successful ever conceived
| or attempted. Our had been in state
| of excitement that knew no bounds for twenty"
| four hours may say twelve of which were spent
| in sailing embarking and fighting Their landing,
| which was difficult, was three or four miles from
| the enemy, to reach whose camps march through
treacherous sand beds and salt marshes rad to be
| made, without guides. That we have killed and
| disabled many of the enemy is beyond doubt; and
that it has been at the sacrifice of valuable lives
and limbs on our side is equally true. Of the enc
my's loss we shall never probably have a correct
account of our own, far, it cannot be less than
| fifty or sixty. But our men volunteered for the
sacrifce-their loss has been their country's gain.
May the green grass press gently on their graves.
Our wounded are watched with the greatest
| care by the noble, generous-hearted women OF
Pensacola, and their friends at home may rest as
| sured that all that can make their pillows easy
| and comfortable will be furnished at their gentle,
christian hands. have been to the hospital sew
eral times to-day. Some of the wounded are I'M
proving after the loss of their shattered limbs,
which were removed in the most skilLful manner,
and in several instances sent to their relatives and
| frienfs in Georgia for entombmeut.