Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-10-17
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From Hatteras Inlet.

ANOTHER BRILLIANT NAVAL ACHIEVEMENT.
On Friday Oct. 4th. word reached Hatteras
Inlet by the Stars and Stripes that twenty-five
hundred rebels, consisting of Georgia, South
Carolina, and Virginia regiments, had come
over from the main land in six small steamers
and schooners, with hat-hoats, and attacked the
Twentieth Indiana Regiment, who were obliged
to retreat.
The Susquehannah steamed up outside, while
Col. Hawkins marched up with six companies
and reached Hatteras Inlet by nightfall, dis
tance of thirteen miles.
During the night Col. Hawkins was Joined
by the Twentieth Indiana Regiment, who had
passed in the darkness large body of the reb-
els, who had landed for the purpose of cutting
them off.
Col Brown reported loss of fifty of his men
as prisoners, comprising his sick and wounded,
and twenty pickets, who could not be called in.
He succeeded in saving his tents, provisions,
&c.
On Saturday morning the Monticello steam
ed around the Cape, and few miles up met
the rebels marching down the narrow neck of
land to attack our troops. The rebel steamers
were also landing troops to cooperate with
them. They were in easy range and the Mon
tcello opened upon them with shells of five
which were fired from three guns in three hours
and thirty minutes, doing great execution.
The Contederates at first tried to shelter
themselves behind sand-hill and then in
narrow copse, but soon broke in every drec-
ton, and took refuge upon their vessels.
A shell passed through the wheel-louse of
the Fanny, which was already employed against
us.
1t is reported that their loss must have reach
ed between two and three hundred killed and
wounded.
During the engagement, a member of the In
diana regiment, who had been taken prisoner,
managed to break the rope with which he was
tied, and escaped. lie took TO the surf, and
was picked up by boat from the Monticello.
lie reports that the first shell from her killed
Col. Barlow, Of the Georgia regiment, and that
the havoc was frghttul. Tie also reports, That
when he escaped he killed Confederate Cap
tain with his revolver.
Upon the withdrawal of the Coniederates, the
Monticello and Susquehannah, and the land
forces, returned to Hatteras Inlet
Affairs at Fortress Monroe.
Everything is reported quiet at Fortress Mon
roe, and there are are no indications OF an at
tempt. on the part of the rebels. to attack New
| morris News. as they have repeatedly threaten
ed. The steam-tug Noung-America, on Mon
dav, while sounding the channel OF James Xiv
er, exchanged several shots with the rebel bat
tery at Pig Point but without damage on either
side. Gen. Wool has suggested TO the Quarter
master General the propriety Of quartering
troops at Old Point and Nevport's News dur.
ing the Winter, in comfortable wooden houses,
built so as to accommodate two or three compa-
mics each.
Important from Fort Pickens
WILSON'S ZouANEs ATTACKED by THE REBELS.
Billy Wilson's Zouaves have at last found the
opportunity which they have so long desired
they have had fight with the rebels, and, judi
ging from the account which reaches us from a
rebel source, they have had no cause to be
ashamed of the result. A New Orleans dis
patch, contained in copy of the Norfolk Dan
Book, which has by some meas reached Balti-