The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-31
The Fight at POcolaIlgo-Furthc
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of quite brilliant success, Of which the brave
soldiers of Col. Walkers command may well
be proud. It appears that the enemy's force
consisted of detachments of eight regiments,
from Pennsylvania, New Hamshire, Rhode
Island and Connecticut Each detachment
numbered 400 men, so that the attacking force
of infantry consisted Of about 5000 men, be-
sides which there was q full battery of field
pieces and two boat howitzers. These troops
were commanded by Brig. Gen. Terry. Hav-
ing effected their landing at an early hour and
driven in our pickets, the Yankees advanced
rapidly towards the railroad. They first en-
countered our forces about eleven O'clock a. M,
and the fight was kept up with more or less
spirit from that time until five o'clock, p M,
when the enemy began to waver and finally fell
back in disorder, leaving his dead upon the
field. The action is described by an eye wit
ness to have been second Secessionvle af-
fair, in the disparity of the forces engaged, in
the stubborn character of the contest, and in.
the completeness of the repulsc. Capt. Elliott's
battery and the Virginia battery are said to
have covered themselves with glory. A later
report, though not official, places the number
of our casualties at twenty killed and sixty
wounded.
THE VIRGINIA ARTILLERY.
The heaviest loss was suffered by the Vir-
glnia Artillery, Capt. j. N. Lampkin, gallant
corps which has served on our coast ever since
the fall of Port Royal. They had four killed
and sixteen wounded, most'of the latter slightly
The battery went into action with 35 men. A
large number of its horses we're killed The
Old Dominion boys also lost a caison, owing
to the horses having taken fright, but captured
one from the enemy, which made things even.
The enemy burned the caison which they
took.
BEAUFORT VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY.
Capt. Stephen Elliott, jr., writes to the
Charleston Mercury that the list of Casualties
in the Beaufort Volunteer Artillery, number
IA wounded-but none dangerously.
The Charleston Light Dragons had seven
wounded in that Company
In the Rutledge Mounted Rifemen only two
casualties-both slight.
Besides the above we hear that Major Nor
gan of the Squadron of cavalry, was wounded
in the leg, and Lieut.. Middleton Stuart of the
Sharpshooters, wounded in the arm. Among
the enemy's dead left on the field was a Capt.
Hamilton, of German battery in the Yankee
service. We captured two prisoners, who were
brought to the city last evening They state
that at the time they Quilted Port Royal, no
iron-clad had yet made its appearance among
the vessels at that station.
The abolition troops, in their retreat, left the
ground strewn with excellent knapsacks, filed
with Yankee notions of various kinds. They
also threw aside large numbers of carefully
prepared fagots, to be used for incendary pur-
poses A friend has sent us specimen of
these fagots, consisting Of split pine twined
with oakum and sprinkled with powder. 1t
may be seen at our Office.
The following official account of the action
was issued by Gen. Beauregard in Savannah
on the 23d inst. a'a1
The Abolitionists attacked in force Pocotal-
igo and Coosawatchie yesterday. They were
gallantly repulsed to their gunboats at Mack.
ey's Point and Bees Creek Landing, by Col
w. s. Walker, commanding the District and
G. p Harrison, commanding the troops sent
from here. The enemy had come in thirteen
transports and gunboats. The Charleston and
Savannah Railroad is uninjured. The Aboli-
lists left their dead and wounded on the field,
and our cavalry is in hot pursuit.
sH eg Ct. L. BEAUREaARD,
InaE,a General commanding.
THE LATEST. 81 FaE
Official dispatches, received last evening,
announce that the enemy's feet of gunboats