The national Republican., 1861-10-22
FROM PENSACOLA.
THE BATTLE OF SANTA ROSA IsLANn

Wehsve some further particulars in relation to
the fight between the rebels and Billy Wilson's
zouaves, upon Santa Rosa Island, which comes
BY way of the Augusta, Ga, Constituionalist,
who was furnished with the facts below by q
Pensacola correspondent. It appears by this
account, that the rebel force amounted to
l,2oo men, commanded by Gen. Anderson. The
writer thus tells his story:
About two O'Clock this morning, October g.
we landed on the island, and marched about
five miles through the enemy's lines and into
his camp, which we completely destroyed,
burning up his tents, &C., and killing bis sen.
tinels as we proceeded.
The Zouaves were taken almost completely
BY surprise, but as soon az they recovered,
fought desperately; at times, however, they
acted rather cowardly, but, upon the whole,
gave us some pretty warm work. We finally
succeeded in driving them into Fort Pickens,
killing quite number Of them, taking some
thirty or forty prisoners, and a lot Of camp
equipage and other trophies.
some OF our men have brought away money,
hats, caps, guns, swords, pistols, and pieces Of
Billy's standard.
Our loss has been very severe. Among the
killed are Lieut.. l.. A. Nslms, of the McDuffie
Rifles, of Warrenton, and aid to Col. jackson;
Joseph II. Adams and Frederick Cooke, of the
Clinch Rifles; and ]. Stanton, of the Irish Vol.
unteers.
Among the wounded are the following: N.
Rice, of the Cinch Rifles, shot in the arm; VIM.
II. Smith, of the same company, shot in the
shoulder; j. II. Harris, Of the same company,
shot In the right ear.
officers and men; and the only regret Is, that
some Of our men were taken prisoners by the
enemy. Such is the fate of " ar, however, and
we must expect, while often successful to have
the cup of victory dashed with the bitters of
adversely.
We arrived in camp at 10 O'Clock this morn
ing Our wounded will be " ell taken care Of
The following extracts, from other letters,
give few further items of interest:
We killed about 100 Zouaves, and lost hea
Willy in killed and wounded on our side but
do not know the exact number. We also took
some 30 or 40 prisoners.
One of our men got $340 in cash; VIM. f.
Mccoy took gun from one of the enemy; an
other took the Zouave Majors hat; others took
coats, hats, caps, swords, fine pair of navy
pistols; one of our mess captured o fine German
silver horn.>
Ben. Bolt son of Judge Bolt, is missing; we
think he has been taken prisoner. M.
ave get out, and before daylight were landed
on Santa Rosa Island, among Billy Wilson's
Zouaves, away below and marched five miles,
fighting several battles before we got off the
island, losing several men from this regiment
l never did see as calm set
Of men in my life as last night We killed the
Federal sentinels all the way up, and took the
enemy by surprise. I was by General Ander-
sons side, and fired, by his orders, more than
dozen tents, among them the oommissariat ;
we also burnt up two hundred barrels of -four.
several bales of hay, and many other articles.
l killed two of Abes men and took two prs-
oners while burning the camp. Jim German,
of the Irish Volunteers, took one. Barney
Haney Is o bruiser, and Lieutenant Joseph
Cummings is as good man as you'll want 10
find. General Anderson goes in for destroying
rather than killing. By mistake, we had some
of our men killed by their comrades.
Owe laid down to fire, and many times the
sand flew in our faces by the balls striking the
ground. claim the honor of killing the man
that killed Nelms. Two of us fired at the same
time, but l am satisfied that my shot tool,
effect. -. H."
THE HOSPITALS AT PENSACOLA.
The Pensacola Obseruer was received on the
l4th instant, at Augusta, Georgia A dispatch
says:
The Observer contains the correspondence
between Col Brown, ia command at Fort
Pickens, and Gen. Bragg, commander of the
Confederate forces at Pensacola, relative to
the hospital at the navy yard. Col. Brown
says he notices large yellow flag on the
building In the line of his batteries, and says it
may be used as protection for the Confed
crate troops; and gives notice to Gen. Bragg
to have all the women, children, and sick re-
moved.
Gen. Bragg replies that the building now
used as hospital has always been used as
such, and he intends to continue to use 1t for
that purpose. He will respect Col. Browns
hospital, even though the Federal guns are
directed to the destruction Of the Confederate
hospital. Gen. Bragg says he will hold Col.
Brown responsible before the world for any
injury to his hospital.