New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-10-16
More Particulars from, the Fight at Pen.
sacoIa.


PENSACOLA, FLA, Oct. 81 suppose by this
time you have been apprised of our fight down
here. Last night detail of seventeen men from
every company in the Georgia regiment, (the one
we are attached to,) and fourteen men from our
company, were invited to participate in some fire.
works and ball, to come off on Santa Rosa
Island, at 4 O'clock A. III. The company was very
select and it fell to the lot of the following men
Of our eompany: Corporal Tuggtes, privates ".
3. Brown, = Brown, Burgess Bell, kiauif, I,e-
Get, Mauidin, Mooney, King, Powers. Wheeian,
Wilson, all good men. They were invited to go
along and spike all guns, burn everything, and cut
up al! they, could. They left at Il o'clock NJ. on
fioatboats, and proceeded very silently, towed by
the Neate and Ewing, over to the Island, and
then marched in. three divisions. towards Fort
Pickens. Their object was to spike all the guns
in the sand batteries they came across, and burn
Billy Wilson'scamp. In going they had to kill
three or four sentirels, which alarmed the camp.
But too late, the boys, Q,2d0 in Humber) were in
their midst, fighting like Bulldogs THEY came
up with a Major and his battalion, and demanded
his surrender. He told them that he would sur.
render conditionally, but for his men he would not
speak; he knew they would not. By this time all
his men were mixed up with our men. in one vast
crowd. His crowd sWore they wonld not surrep-
der, and our boys pitched in with their bowie
knives and reVolvers, and had free fight for about
fifteen twenty minutes, but they could not stand
the press and left. '= I -f'" '7"|@H 'E a"|
1t was one of the most daring, but the worst
planned expedition, ] ever heard of. The most of
ouf own men were hllleu Dy tnelr own SIDE II Ia
true they all Fad badge on their arm and had
password, but when our side got there the pass
word hadgot there before them. We had some
traitors on our side; they know everything as
soon as we do. Corporal Tugges was shot in front
of the neck and the ball came oat at the shoulder
his life is despared Of poor Burgess was shot in
the forehead and killed instantly; they were all
that were lost from our company. The killed and
wounded on our side are estimated at about forty
on the other side no telling-the ground was GOV,
cred, While am writing the boys that went over
are telling some incidents of the fight. PI give
you few as well as can remember them. Joe
Powers took one fellow and brought him to camp +;
Joe was going to kill him. but Tom Wilson begged
him off, All the boys brought some trophies home
muskets, caps, and everything in, the soldier line.
Joe's prisoner is in the camp he is hard looking
case. Mooney got after fellow and killed him
and then turned round and said he was sorry he
had killed him he wanted him fora pet. One OF
the McDui1ie rifles found two fellows in the bushes
and asked them who they belonged to they told
him they were Wilson's Houaves; well, says he, I
promised to kill all of them, and he made his word
true. ..-,.
We sent beat with flag of truce to Fort
Pickens to-day to ask permission to bring away
our dead and wounded but I have Just heard that
old Brown has taken the men, boat and all
prisoners. ,-