Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1862-02-20


; The Confederate troops are completely de-
j moralized, and have no confidence in their lead
!. ers, as they charge Pillow and Floyd with de-
serting them.
| Our troops, from the moment of the invest
Il ment of the fort Wednesday last, lay on their
arms night and day-haf the time without pro-
visions, all the time without tents and portion
Of the time in heavy rain storm.
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/ From the Agent of the Associated Press.
Success of the Expedition Under Commodore
\ GoldsbOrOugh and Gen. Burnside.
/ Fortress Monroe Feb. 13-The gunboat Stars
land Stripes. arrived here at noon to-day from
Roanoke Island with bearers Of dispatches t.
1.-THE Government from Gen. Burnside and Com
lGoldsborough.
4 She reports full confirmation Of the victory
]of our arms.a Roanoke Island. The arout OF
lthe Confederates was most complete. Three
Cd issi ali tiIs
sunboats burnt or captured except two, which
escaped up the canal, but would doubtless soon
| fall into the hands of the Federal troops
The Confederate accounts greatly magnifed
| the killed and wounded. The Federal loss in
| killed does not exceed AZ, and the wounded
about 14O. The Confederate loss in killed is
only ABOUT 80 and their wounded less than 100.
| The advance from Hatteras, as already stated,
took place on Wednesday morning the 5th
instant, the expedition consisting of about 60
vessels The feet anchored off Stumpy Point
on that night and next day proceeded to the
entrance Of Croatan Sound.
| After reconnaissance the attack was COM
menced on Friday morning, the Underwater
leading the column.
| The Confederate feet was attacked and dis
persed in half an hour by portion of the navy,
while the remainder attacked the land batteries.
The fight continued until dark.
/ During the night 10000 were landed and on
Saturday morning 1000 were advanced against
the enemy.
A masked battery Of three guns was soon
discovered by the skirmishers and was attacked
in front and on both TANKS. The Twenty first,
|Twenty-6fth and Twentyseventh Massachu-
sets, and the Ninth New York, Fifty-frst
New York and Tenth Connecticut were partcu-
larly engaged The Twenty-ffth Massachusetts
and the Tenth Connecticut suffered the most
severely.
The fight lasted only some two or three hours,
when the battery was abandoned.
| Our troops quickly pursued the enemy and
surrounded the Confederate camps, and finally
took nearly the whole command prisoners.
/ Captain 0. Jennings Wise wounded, and
a boat.
i Colonel Russell, of the Tenth Connecticut,
| was killed at the head Of his regiment. Lieut..
Colonel Vigier de Monte, of the D'Epineuil
1Zouaves, whose services were voluntary was
| also killed. No other officers were killed on the
Federal side above the rank of Lieutenant. Our
Ii total loss in killed and wounded is less than
200, and the number of killed is less than SO.
! We took in the neighborhood of 5000 prisoners,
who were about being sent to New York in the
| steamer Spaul,ling and other transports. Among
| the prisoners taken are some twelve fifteen
Colones, Lieutenant olonels and Majors.
| On Sunday afternoon fleet of fifteen gun
boats started for Elizabeth City. The place was
shelled, and having been evacuated and partly
| burnt by the retreatng Confederate troops, was
soon occupied by the Federal forces.
| All the Confederate fleet was sunk or burnt
except two, the Roanoke and Beaufort, which
ESCAPED, up the canal. The Sea Bird, which
was the flagship of Commodore Lynch, was
RIM down and boarded by one Of the Federal
,nnboats. The Confederate Commodore es-
capped by jumping overheard and swimming t.
the shore.
The news from Elizabeth City arrived at Roa-
1 noke Island on Monday evening, and the "StarS
and Stripes" left on Tuesday morning for Old
! Point but she grounded on the bar at Hateras
IN Tuesday night. and did not start again till
Wednesday morning. She will Immediately
return with cargo of ammunition, &c.
| Gen. Wise was at Nag S Head, and succeeded
in escaping to Norfolk, covered with glory.
! The Cnnfederates made no fight after being
driven from their entertainments which was
done by Hawkins Zouaves and the Twenty
First Massachusetts regiment.
Young Wise resisted the storming parties un-
I'll he was wounded, when he was carried off,
and his, command retreated with the Others to
the upper end Of the island, where they laid
down their arms.
Elizabeth City was about half bnrbteby the
Confederate: soldisry. The people. however,