Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-02-15
Lale and lmp0tlaat MAr Nevs,
Funr MoNKoE, Feb. IL

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plelc seccess Of the Burnside expedition at
Roanets lslaud. The Island was taken
possession OF and Commander lyuch's 0eet
Completely .aestroged. - 5. ,aaa
Elizabeth Ciuy vas attacked on Sunday
and .evacua,ed by the InhabitaptS, The
city was previously burned bet whe:Aessb sby
our sbells or The inhabi.apts Is not Ger.
taiu.
The srst news of The defeat Arrived At AOr.
folk on Sunday afternoon aud caused great
excitement. The precious news was ye'y
sAtisIaciSsy. stating that lbs YaakeCs had
been allowed 10 advance for tie purpose Of
drawing them into trap. The rebel
forces on isisnd Is supposed to have been
little over sooO lighting msas ssT
Gen Wise was sick at Nag's Head aud
was not preseat durtug thsegag cement.
when the situation became dangerous
he was removed to Norfolk Aa che gnn-
boats bat cue we're tskCn, and that escaped
up creek and ~as probably destroyed,
One report says that only 20. aud anOth-
or that only "a, contedera,es escaped from
tho Islsnd. q
Gen. IIuger tslegrapilcd to Richasond ths
only so on Tho Islaad escaped.
There appears to be 10 bright side Of
the story FOR the robcis.
- The Richmond Exainiaer IN aieading
editorial says the ioss Of an entire army on
Roanoke Island is certainly the most pain
ful event ofathe war
The intelligence. of yesterday by telo-
graph is fully confirmed z, 500 brave troops
on an island in the SEQ, were exposed to
all the force of-the Burnside aect-resisted
With the most Determined courage, but
when rs ,oe0 Federal troops were landed
against the retreat being cutoff by thC
Surrounding elements, they were forced {
surrender. This issa repetition Of the Hat
teras affair on large scale. fs,a s
The following dispatches 90 The suhjec
ere taken from The Richmond paporsc
The latest news states that Captain 0
Jenning's Wise, son Of Gev. Wise, was
SHOT through the hip and disabled, thougt
his wound ia net mortal. ? v a7 /,
Major, Dawson aud Lieutenant Miller
were mortally wounded. About thTe
hundred Cenfederates We're billed, ih
wounded numbers over 1000, The nam
Der of Yankees wounded is about th'
same e = e.f -. - -,
& late arrival says that Elizabeth Cffy
had been shelIed and burned BY The Yan
kees, aud that the'enemy were pushing on
to Edenton.
A second dispatch. dated Norfolk lOth
SAYS ruuaor has prvailyd tha, Com.
I.yuca's Heet Of gunboAis had tesn cap
turcd.
1t is not regarded as true, but it j
believed that all were burned by the Con
federatcs, to prevent their capture. wit
4 the exceptiou Of ono, which was endca'
/ oring to. mako its escape The lcet weE
from Roanoke Island, and was probabi
4 burnt at the former point.
A dispatch was received al Richmond .
midnight, stating. ~.
a courier. a rrived here this a. N, at
clock and brought the intelligence tha
Elizabeth City was barned this moFnin
by lis iuiiabitants
During the corRagration the Fedcra'
landed o large force. All our guAboat
excepting one, were captured by the enem
Gen Wise has not yei arrived at No
folk.
The following The very latest. We cor
from the Norfolk Day Book
. A courier arrived here yesterday afte
aooh about three O'clock, from which y
. gather the following information; Fl
: enemy advanced in fall force On EIizabe'
= City about 7 o'clock and began au Alta
, upon that place. The citizens hnding re
I istsnce vain evscaated the place, but |
fore doing so set Gre 70 the town, al
1 when our informsnt left il was still
n flames.
Of We have also to record the cspinre,
as the enemy, Of all oar little feet except
~ Fanny or Forest, our Informant is l
IL certain which. This elnded the enemy.
10 She was pursued. however. and fears I
% entertained that she was captured.
:, II said that before our boats suTendel
he they were abandoned. and that their ere
Of succeeded iu making their escape, if 80.
are at loss to conjecture why the bo
a. we're not fired before they were aband
% ed.
~ The disaster TO our little feet attribu
). to the fact that having exhausted Il
!, supply of coal ammunition, they process
= TO Elizabeth City for the purposes
J, obtaining a supply. Every ofort
! made to obtain coal, but without succ
u L. L.