Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-11-13
From Savannah.


SavAySAm, November S.-Ihc steamer
Sampson has arrived from Port Royal with
the wounded.
The engagement yesterday was between
Fort Walker and Bay Point. fifteen vessels
lyilg inside, and severa! outside. There were
five hundred men in Fort Walker, and thir-
teen hundred outside on Hilton Head Island.
The steam ship Minnesota was the first to
enter and fire, and was rapidly followed By
Others The attack was made from three
sides and the firing terrific. ltis thought that
no !css than 420 guns were brought to bear
upon the forts.
The steamers would first fire broadside
at Fort Walker and Immediately after another
at Bay Point. After the second round from
the fleet the principsl gun on the water bat
terry was dismounted. The engagement last
cd live hours. al the guns on the fort were
d:smnmted except two. Being no longer
tcnablc and all the guns dismounted, the
Magazine was arranged so as to blow up the
fort when the cacny should enter.
The ContcderaLcs total loss is about 100.
Sergeant L. Parkcrson and Private Mcigs
Of the Berry Infantry, slightly wounded; Gcor.
ga Forresters, two missing; Thomas County
Volunteers, J. W. Fontainc, missing; 18th
Patriots, Prvatcs Arson and Thompson
missing; Capt. Radclitie's Company, two miss.
ing DcSaus$urc's Regiment: fifteen missing
from one Company.
DR.. E. Somers Bust was killed while dress.
ing wound.
Lieut.. Smack wounded in the leg.
A dispatch 10 the ConstitutioAalist says:
In Capt. Red's company Of Regulars, there
were l6 killed, wounded and missing, out Of
IS. Private Kelly, while working one Of the
runs in tie fort, had his head shot off.
Capt. Rcid's company, Immediately on
landing, pu he'd through the cnemy's fire into
tue fort, and worked the guns Of their battery
in all admirable manner for four hours, and
were highly complimcnted by the command
Ing General.
They drew their brass pieces on retiring,
l2 miles, aud then abandoned thctn.
Capt. Wagner's company Of Artillery, was
also engaged in working the batteries, and
behaved with the utmost GOODNESS and gallant.
ry. and did etlectual service. Capt. Wagner
was slightly wounded in the face, and thc
blood was trickling from the wound as he
was working the battery.
Ono Of General Drayton's Aids was shot
from his horse, and . piece Of she'll grazed
the Generals check. He received, also, a
slight wound in the arm. The force on the
Island consisted of Hcyward's Nineteenth,
and DcSaussurc's 18th South Carolina Vol
uncers; Styles 9th Georgia Regiment, and
q Company Of Regulars.
The Charleston Mercury Of Saturday says:
a mass of conflicting rumors reached us
Yesterday, from Port Royal Early in the
day, it 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 mortiiying statement, that the Fort
was held by its defenders, until twenty-seven,
out of lis twenty.nine guns we're dismounted
md usclcs.
From passenger direct from the scene of
action VIC learn that each of the enemy's
transports was conveyed into the harbor by
two war steamers, one on either side. In this
order they passed our batteries. the two war
steamers delivering broadsidc each, us they
steamed rapidly by.
When number of their vessels had thus
reached the interior of the harbor, IN inces-