The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1861-11-20
Particulars or the Fight ~ Port
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CHARLEsTos. Nov. 6.--After four hours
fighting. the ammunition was exhausted and
seven guns disabled. The batteries we're
then abandoned.
SAvaSsaH, Nav. e.--The steamer Samp-
son has arrived from Port Royal. with the
wounded from the engagement yesterday at
Fort Walker and Bay Point.
She reports fifteen vessels inside and sew
eral outside. Five hundred men were ~
Fort Walker, and thirteen hundred outside
on Hilton, Head Island. The steamship
Minnesota vas the first 10 enter, and was
followed rapidly BY others.
An attack Was made from three rides.
After the second round from the feet, the
principal gun on the battery was dismount-
ed
The engagement lasted Eve hours. All
the guns on the fort were dismsahied except
two. when the fort being no longer tenable.
they we're dismounted. The magazine was
arranged so As to blow up when the enemy
enters.
The total loss Of the confederates was
100. Captain Radcliffe Company h.s two
missing. and there are fifteen missing in one
Company in Desaussure's Regiment.
DR.. BUST. Of Charleston. Was killed while
dressing the wound Of Lieut.. Smack. VIII,
was wounded 10 the leg. Captain Reads
Company Of regulars from Georgia has air
teen killed. wounded and missing. One Of
General Drayton's Aids was shot from his
horse. General Dray,on was slightly wound
ed.
Prom The chsds.iOn Mercury Of Saturday.
A mass Of conflicting rumors reached US
yesterday from Port Royal. Early in the
day il was generally believed that The aban-
donment Of Fort Walker was owing to the
powder having been exhausted. Our latest
dispatches bring Us the very different and
much less Notifying statement that the fort
was held by lis defenders until tweniy-sey-
en- out Of its twenty guns we're dis
mounted and useless.
From q passenger direct from The scene
of action, We learn that each Of the enemy's
transports were conveyed into the harbor
/ BIZ two war steamers, one on either side. In
this order they passed our batteries, the two
war steamers delivering q broadside each.
as they steamed rapidly by. When num-
/ Der Of their vessels had thus reached the in.
terror Of the harbor. an incessant and stimuli
lsneous ere Of shot and she'll was opened
upon Port Walker from three sides-the
steamers inside. and one Just In from Of
Hilton Head taking part in the attack. Not.
withstanding the abandonment Of our bat.
teries. We hear no news. thus Ear. IL the en-.
envy attempting landing. We understand
that our farces have formidable distractions
In the river Al point about four miles be.
low Beaufort. Gen. lee IL said 70 be con.
slructing Notifications AZ Beaufort. While
Ripley i erecting works al Boyd's Landing
for the defence Of the railroad. Reports
we're current yesterday that the Wabash
had besn burned TO the waters edge, aud
that one Of the enemy's transports Vas sunk
in Broad River but sc could find no sab
staniial basis for these rumors. We give
below the dispatches received yesterday and
last night;
PoeorsIieo. Nov. Q, 8 p. m.-0ur bate.
ries at Bay Pelut and Hilton Head having
been abandoned BY the gsrrisons. the enemy
have possession Of Port Royal harber and
Broad River. All the inhabitants have LEFT
Beaufort, taking with them such of their ei-
ieeb a. they could carry od. The town 10
almost deserted. II 10 presumed that the
enemy Gill effect landing to-day. either al
Beaufort OF at some point in the immediate
neighborhood.
| Beaufort, probsbly. will not be burned. A
great deal Of cotton on the islands will faIl
into the hands Of The enemy. Blufton will
be burned. if attacked.
The points Of danger nos, srei The rail.
rad, al Poeotaligo, Charleston and ssvan.
nah.
THE BlocIaps oT THs PoruHAc.-Ths
blreksde Of the Potomac by The i'onfedsrate
batteries 70 being seriously IsIt in the North.
Such is the accumulation ef freight al BsIt.
more IN consequence thereof. that IL takes
Two or three weeks 10 get anything from
thereto Washington BY the ordinary process.