The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-02-13
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THURSDAY MORNING. :. .rsB. ls ,ss,.
Progress Of Events - RumOrs The
Roanoke Island Affair - Authentic

Accounts
The city was fnli OF rumors Yesterday. and
the excited imagination Of the people were
kept Ia constant activity. 1t was currently
reported. and satenaively believed, that the
enemy had penetrated the State OF North
Carolina as far as Murfreesboro'. q little
town in Hartford county. bordering on
Southampton, Va. and not far from the line
of the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad
Another report had 1t that the Fedsra,s were
within thirty miles Of Murfreesboro'. having
gone ny the Chowan river in small boats
to do which IL would be necessary 10 pass
the town OF Edenton. There Is, however,
no confirmation OF these statements, omcial
or otherwise, and We have every reason TO
believe shat the enemy has not penetrated 70
any point beyond Elizabeth CITY.
Mr.. +. ". Tichenor, Sergeant Major OF
Cavalry In the Wise Legion, arrived In tn.
city last evening, from Currituck Bridge. on
| the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal. which
place he left on Monday night. We learn
from him that Gen. Wise was al the bridge
| much i'm proved In health and In good spirit..
busily making preparations to prevent al ad .
vance OF the enemy In that direction Mr.
Tichenor had an interview with Sergeant
Metzler, OF the MsCulloch Rargers, who .s.
capsd from Roanoke Island With TWO or
threAeompanies. after the fig t, il q int
He says that Capt. Wise IL certainly Killed.
and is the only one killed Of his comDanv.
tthe Richmond Blues } that eight o. ten OF
the men we've wounded, bus not seriously.
and all taken prisoners. They fought until
their ammunition gave out, and before
surrSndering broke thet1 guns "a pieces -
This Course was also adopted by tho McUuI.
loch Rangers. none Of whom a.o reported
killed. though some are wounded Lieut.
| Bigger. OF the Blues 10 prisoner, and IN
| hurt. With twenty-five Others. lo got in to
| a small boat with view 10 escape, but the
| enemy brought gun 70 bear upon them, and
| ordered them back, and they were forced to
| return. There are conflicting reports abont
Lieut. Fred. Carter, though Metzler thinks
| be is not wounded. 1t Is stated that Frank
| Johnston, Of the Blues, received nesh
| wound, but bravely fought on un Ill he was
| taken prisoner.
| The Light Guard and jackson q uard. OF
| this city, lost very few in killed or wounded
1t is believed that neither Capt. Wallace or
Capt. Dickinson is wound ed, though both
| are prisoners with their com panies.
| One OF the Blues had hi. gun shot from his
hand. As coolly picked it up, and finding
ths b,rrel slightly bent, repaired to the near.
| est tree and str aightened it. then again took
his place and had the satisfac ton of firing
| several more shots at the enemy
Major Hugh W. Fry, with his battalion
arrived upon the ground too late to partici-
pa in the action, and was ordered to sur.
render Wi tn the others. Dol. Green's reRi.
| ment arrived in time to fire one volley before
sDrrendering. Captain Coles, of Cnarlo ties
| VILE with his com any, WAS in the hottest OF
| the fight As one OF his men fell, he took his
| the most determined bravery, when he wa.
| shot through the body and killed.
| Major Selden, of Norfolk. fought WITH
great heroism ut one Of the guns. He war
| In the &C, of preparing his gun for the only
| remaining charge Of ammunition, when tn.
top OF his head was blown Oh by SD OF from
the enemy, and he fell dead.
| II is gratifying 10 hear that our loss in
| killed Is by no means so great as a. first Re =
| ported. II 10 believed that 1t does not OK
coed forty The enemy must have suffered
| very heavily. Indeed, we hear that the flag
of.truce boar, At Norfolk, brought q repor,
from Fortress Monroe that their loss was
| 900; but this may DO exasgeration. Ser
| geant MerZter states that when he ran along
the beach to make his escape, the dead were
laying in heaps.
| We still entertain hope. that Capt. Wise
was not killed. 1t is sisted that dispatch
| was received in this city yesterday to the
otsct that his attending surgeon had been
| permitted to send a message from the Island
containing Information that he was alive
| though wounded in ave places
Our Norfolk correspondents give additions
particulars, and the telegraph assures MS tn a
| Com. Lynch is safe. The shock conseduen,
| upon the first news Of the q dair at Roanoke
Island has been succeeded by determine
ton TO resist the onward march OF the In
yader. The defeat Is relieved Of m uch of it:
4 painful and Notifying character by know
| ledge of the facts, and so FAR from depressin
the spirits Of our people, it will nerve then
| with purpose equal to the work befor,