The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1861-10-24
The Flgh. on Santa Rosa Island

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The Fight on Santa Rosa Island
y The te,.prapLic accounts of lie .lu,e
affair 4, Pensacola were 80 unsa,i,fac,o
~, that our readers will he glad 10 pet
the following more complete and :ni.l,
ligiller narrative Of the EXPLOIT. taken
f,om the Montgomery hdverriser:I I
:, On Tuesday might, shout l2l o'clock,
some twelve or fifteen hundred of ,our
neu. Under com,nantl.tf i3riyhdier Gen
eral Anslerson crossed The hay in two
small steamers and scnws attached To
them, The men were picked. general.
ly from fourteen to seventeen in mum
Der, ffnms the companies sofN the reoi,
menis from Alabama. Flntida. Georgia.
Loui,iana and Mississippi; noi fall com.
panv being taken, except perhaps. the
Cinchtlsitles from. Gt6giass The party
iisrmlnrked f,"m ~ oini Opposite Pen
sacola. near Santa Rosa Island. about
fise miles from Fpti fickens, T1cinrn
bad TO wade. and some of ,hemIo swim
Ia reach tie l~ach Some of lie car.
ridges DC. gu, vet. p. "a ~ -
i, Landed on the Island, they were III
ri,ie,i into TWO squads. one proceeding
lirectly across Ia the Snurhcrn b.ach.
l'e,oni Billy Wilson's camp. aud the
other marched down The Northern
beach, opposite esch other. They XIII
ed The sentries rs they went. some six
in nninber, spiked the guns, set fire 10
the cabins in Mhicl, the Zniiaves were
camped. and shot them as they ian ont. !.
All agree that The Znuaves ran incnnti,
nenily fnr Fort Pickrns. They
rarriy looked back or stepped To fire nj
our boys, hut rltot NJ they ran. They
tad thrown up some saud banks. bu,
none OF their hg guns were mounted.
onrlmrn took over a g,o,lly quantit,
" rat 'ah files, with which they secure
~ spikrT! every gun except two. They
ta'nt all dis houses aud stores, except
the ho,pital. iss ~
TIE only formidable resistance was
I'frou some U. s. r-gaIsrs. sent on, frnm
Fort Pickens 10 redeem The ground
which the Zouares had al,andone,l.--
The regulars, hrwever. finding our force
larger than the, had expected. seemed
TO have become panic stricken, and re
treated until our men were IN the re:
oi returning f''an tie Island in oba.ii
enee :" the signal Tom The Nrvv Yard.
''-s lhen advanced anil free d"liher ate.
" at our men, huddIed up in the l'os,s.
and did them more damage than they
had received during the figh, an Tie
Island. IL MAS nj this lime That Gen.
Anderson was Wounded in tie arm
lw" W .hree guns were also fired at
them. when cr"-sing, from Fort Pick
ems, without effect. = a
Our men suPplisd themselves well
with small arms that ;hry took from
the enemy. They also kilie,l n negro
and caprn'rd another. Seven,cvn pyi
back; how many, IL any more. is n",
kho"n. The noto,ious Colonel. Billy
Wilson, mad"a sirsigh, ,nn from hi.
mdrque TO the FWi. Al statements
rom our men who participated agee
hat 'bry Killed i"tMeen i~" aud ih,ee
hundred OF the Yankees. o"r loss IN
sh'e' ana missing Is forty, and thirty,
nve W """'aeo' nSe "t whom died on
"e'nes"afy. is1af ,', m'st ~ our loses IN the
,'.ll'lh.He Sk','n''h are 'a''t''"ntd ." c,"ss hrng,
@hen our men were shooting ~. he
a'aasrs rom opposite sides and 10
,He,r h1l being aeie 70 Distinguish The
"a"ge OF be'r comrades IN Tie dark