Nebraska advertiser., 1862-02-20

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the column.
The rebel fleet was attacked and dis
Dersed in half an hour, by a portion Of
the navy, while the remainder attacked
The land batteries. The fight lasted IN
Ill dark. During the night 10000 men
were landed, and on Saturday morning
1000 were advanced. A masked bat.
terv of three guns was soon discovered
bv the skirmishers, and was attacked in
front and on both TANKS.
The fight lasted only three hours when
the battery was abandoned. Our troops
pursued, and surrounded the rebel en-
campments, and took the whole command
prisoners. D. Jennings-Wis was shot
twice and wounded, while e~ndeavoTing
to escape in a boat.
Colonel Russell, of the Tenth Connec-
ticut was killed at the head of his regi-
ment. Lieut.. Colonel Vigler de Mon
til, of the D'Epineuil ZOuaves, whose
services were voluntary, was also killed.
No other officers were killed above the
rank OF Lieutenant. Our total loss of
killed and wounded IS less than 200, and
40, number killed. No other officers
were killed above the rank of Lieuten-
ant.
The prisoners are being sent to New
York by the Steamer Spaulding and 9TH
err steamers. Among them are about
Is fifteen Colonies, Lieutenant Colonels
and Majors.
On Sunday afternoon, a fleet of IF
teen gunboats started for Elizabeth City.
The place was sRelIed, and having been
evacuated and partially burned by the
troops. was occupied.
All the rebel fleet was sank or burnt,
except two, the Roanoke and Beaufort,
which escaped up a canal. The Sea
Bird, which was the flag ship of Com
modore Lynch, was run down and board
ed, but the Commodore escaped by swim
ming to the shore. The steamer News,
from Elizabeth City, arrived at Roanoke
Island on Monday evening, and the Stars
and Stripes on Tuesday morning. She
struck on the bar at Hatteras on Tuesday
night. but started again in the morning,
and arrived here at about noon to-day.
The Stars and Stripes brings a bear
er Of dispatches from Gen. Burnside and
Commodore Goldsborough. She will re-
turn Immediately with a cargo of ammu-
milton.
Gen Wise was at Nag's Head, and
succeeded in escaping TO Norfolk. The
rebels made no fight after being driven
from their entertainments, which was
done by Col. Hawkins Zouaves and the
Massachusetts twenty-frst.
Young Wise resisted the storming par
ties until 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 burned
by the rebel soldiers. The people sent
a deputation to Commodore G~oldsboroUgh
asking him to send a force TO assist in
extinguishing the flames.
Edenlon was taken possession of on
Wednesday by Commodore Goldsborough
No opposition was offered.
The Norfolk and Richmond papers at
tribute the loss of Roanoke Island 10 the
laundering inef6ciency of the navy.
They persist in asserting that nearly
a thousand federals were killed. They
charge some Roanoke Island farmers
with having deserted and piloted the
Yankees to the only point where a land
ing could be effected. the island being
aanked on all sides by an extensive
marsh.
Dispatches from Memphis to Norfolk
admit that the federal flag was cheered
on the Tennessee river by the people,
and assert that the federals neither seiz-
ed or destroyed any private property, not
even cotton.
Gen. Letcher has issued an order for
the formation of Home Guards for Nor
folk, Petersburg, and Richmond.
Messrs. Ames and Fish have return
ed to Baltimore, the rebels refusing to
receive them. Four hundred released
Federal prisoners will reach Old Point
on Friday or Saturday.
The Richmond Dispatch a Y our Ten
nessee exchanges give US gloomy pros
poets for the future in hat part of the
Confederacy. Several leading journals
intimate plainly that there is really a
threatening state of affairs in East Ten
nessee growing out of the idola:rous SEN
timents of many of those people to the
old Union.
The correspondent Of the Memphis
Avalanch writes that the condition of the
interior counties is not improved by the
lapse of time. The people a~pprehended
an immediate advance of the NorthmeD,
and the traitors to the South evince their
joy in every village and neighborhood.
The Unionists are making demonstra-
tions in many of the Northern counties,
and even at Memphis there were exhi.
billions of Joy on the arrival of news from
Beach Grove.
Reinforcement have been sent on to
General Thomos, who is now en- route for