The Burlington weekly hawk-eye., 1862-05-10
EVACUATION Of YORKToWr.
: FuRTHER PARTICULARS.

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PmrArirriA. Nay S.-The Enquirsr has
special despatch from Fortress Monroe giving
The following particulars IN regard % the evaos-
ton Of Yorktown.
One mile huoad XorktSwa
rsE'i5 511 Sunday 10 O'Clock l. H.
All day yesterdaythe rebels kept mp = fre on
Ger. sPoftef4 disisi5k Z No ohe 80 hurt Our
Parrot guns q Farnhsl Court Hoass oocaaion..
ally answered them. Al last evening and up 70
midnight lively firing VAS kept up; about thes
time the fire slackeued oonsidefably q o'clock
stopped altogether. We hred ono Or two more
basterieS at them but got no answer. About
o'clock this morning building at Yorktown wa
fred and Prof Lowe and Gen. Heintzelman
went up in q balloon and found it was their store
house ct Yorktown wharf : at daylight they
reported the forts empty; att o'clock We occu-
pied Yorktown without being again fred ct
: OF the guns of the enemy nearly all remain
ing we're spiked and dismounted. By the side
Of the river battsrieswere large piles Of ammu.
milton, powder, balls and shells. Eighty guns
we're IN yorktown, which is surrounded by
semicircle; the earthworks were all constructed
to cover one another in every position, but they
must have eventually yielded could We have got
around them.
The gun We dismounted the other day killed
and wounded four rebels.
The fort had been occupied by che First bat
tallion New Orleans Artillery, the 9th and 3Oth
Alabama regiments the 10th and 14th Louisiana
and 18th and 41th Georgia regiments. These
troops were ordered to report at Howard'a
Grove. four miles from Richmond, and left the
fort at midnight. a rear guard was left who
waited for appearances and then retired in the
greatest haste.
Z Two deserters who left their regiment in Will
liamsburgh at daylight; says the whole rebel ar
my was in panic.
Prof loves balloon reconnaissance discov-
cred their rear guard at 3 A. NJ, to be four miles
out. Gen. Mcclellan Immediately ordered out
the artillery and cavalry and is pushing after
them at full speed.
All our gunboats came up ate o'clock and
landed some marines at Gloucester, who raised
the q. 8. flag amid cheering that could be heard
across the river The boats all then left and
are now running up the York river shelling the
banks on both Sides
A number of mines had been prepared for
our troops by placing Prussian shells under
ground, in the road, ways and entrances to the
forts No whites were to be found, aud only q
few negro women and babies. The town was
ssqualid and dirty. A few days of rain would
have been a specific. A large quantity Of meat,
sslt and fish was left. All the tents were left,
but no horses or wagons.
heporteseOhcuf thdt the TeDeiS consist VI
mob Of about 100000 men. ill.fed, dirty and
disheartened. The road from Yorktown to
Hampton, on which they were encamped, was
guarded by Fort Magruder, mounting large
number of guns, part Of which are taken away
and part spiked, and some Of their works were
we'll laid out. others were wretched contrivances
The work upon them was finished on Friday
night, and the slaves sent to the rear under
guard. The rebels have nothing behind or
which they can make stand. Last night theil
camp fires all along were the same as usual
The dense wood along the peninsulh enabled
them to leave without being seen by the balloon
The large guns of the rebels are mostly colum
biads, taken from the Norfolk Navy Yard
Some Of them have been recently mounted
The --, although of the toughest char
acter, were very formidable, being surrounded
by deep gorges almost impossible,