The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-05-06

\ y PHILADELPHIA, May THE Inquirer has
1 a special dispatch from Fort Monroe, Civ.
ing the following particulars in regard Il
the evacuation of Yorktown:
OsB MIbE BEYoXD YORKTOWN,
/ aeg. go SUNDAY, 10 o'clock A. 81.
/ All day yesterday the rebels kept up q
| hot fire on Gen. Porter's Division. No one
was hurt. Our Parrot gun at Humboldt
Court House, occasionally answered them
all last evening, and up to midnighG lively
| firing was kept up. Anout that time their
FIRE sIackeRed considerably and eft ? O'Clock
stopped altogether. We fred one or two
more batteries at them but got no answer.
About 3 O'Clock this morning a building at
Yorktown was fred and Prof. Lowe and
| Gen. Heintzleman went up in balloon. It
was their store house, at Yorktown, which
was fred at daylight. They reported the
Forts empty.
At { O'Clock we occupied Yorktown
without gun being fred. OF the guns of
the enemy nearly all remaining were spiked
and dismounted. By the side of the river
batteries were large piles of ammunition,
powder, balls and shot. Eighty guns were
in Yorktown, which is surrounded by q
semi circle. The earthworks were all con-
strueted to cover one another in every DO
sition. but they must eventually have yield
ed could we have got around them The
gun we dismounled the other day killed
and wounded fourteen rebels The fort had
been occupied by the lst battalion New
Orleans artillery, the 9Th and Both Alabama,
the 10th and l4th Louisiana, and the 18th,
18th and 45th Georgia regiments. These
troops were ordered to report at Towards
Grove, four miles from Richmond, and left
the fort at midnight. a Eea- guard was
faFr oh cd FIR
then retired in the greatest haste.
Two deserters who left theiz regiments at
Williamsburg at daylight, say the whole
rebel army was in panic. Prof. loves
balloon reconnaissance discovered them at
8 A n. to be four miles out.
Gen. Mcclellan Immediately ordered cut
the artillery and cavalry, and is pushing
after them at full speed. All our gunbOats
came up a. O'Clock and landed some
marines at Gloucester, who raised the
United States flag amid cheering that could
be heard across the river.
The boats all left and are now running
up York river, Smelling the banks on both
sides.
A number of mines had been prepared
for our troops by placing percussion shells
under ground in the roadways and en-
frances to the fort. No whites were to be |
found, aud only a few negro women and |
babies. |
The town was squalid and filthy. A few
days of warm weather would have bred q /
pestiIence. An abundance of -four and
large quantity of meat-salt and fresh
was left. All the tents were left but no
horses or wagons.
Reports concur that the rebels consist of
a mob of about 100, 900 men, ill-fed, dirty,
and diapirited. The road from Yorktown |
to Hampton, on which we were encamped,
was guarded by Fort Magruder, mounting
a large number of guns, part of which were
taken away and part spiked. Some of their
works were well built and well laid out, /
while others were wretched contrivances.-
The work upon them was finished on Fri
day night, and the slaves sent to the rear
under guard.
The rebels have nothing behind on which
they can make a stand. Last night their
camp fires all along their line were the
same as usual. The dense woods along the
peninsula enabled them 70 leave without
being seen by the balloon.
The large guns of the rebels were mostly
taken from the Norfolk Navy
Yard. Some of them have been recently
The Notifications, although of the rough
est character, were very formidable, being
By deep gorges almost impossi-
bic to pass.
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