Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-02-15
From Burnside's Rxpedition

Il ~ 49,
to Wafhitgtou finely.
From Bnrnside's Expedition.
FoRIREss NoSIog, Feb. ls.-The gun.
boat StlFs qhd Stripes Hrrived at noon
from Bprnstde xpedition With bearers 81
dispatches for tie governments.
She teports Tue t0nt of the rebels com.
Plete- hFse thoBsaad fisoners were cap.
tnFed, 9ll Their gRnboats burnt or captured
except SWot which escaped inithe canal.
Fedslal loss was ~ killed aud about
40 sWo thded: The rebel loss was about
80 ktlle ana less than 100 wounded.
The tssnee from Hatteras took place
on WE'D ay morning, the expedite COM
ont sixty vessels. The meet
Il AM u sspmpy Point that nigh I
next d pr6etpded to thes efiffances M
Ghootor S0thd: Alter 8 7fcconnoiss a nee
the attack VAS commended on Friday
morning, the Underwater leading the col
umn.
The rebel aeet was attacked and dis
persed ~ half an hour by portion of the
navy While tho remainder attacked the
land batteries. The iGht continued until
During the night ten thousand men were
landed end on Saturday morning seven
Thousand were advanced. A masked bat
terry Of three guns was soon discovered by
tue skirwisbers, and was attacked In front
and ntboth flsnks. The 2lst, 25th and
ztth Massachusetts,, the 9th and 5lst N. V.
and 10Th Connecticut were pArticularly
engaged The 25th Massachusetts and
10Th Connecticut suffered the most severe
". The light lnsted only two or three
hours, when tho battery was abandoned.
Ourtroops pursued, and surrounding the
reoel semps took nearly the whole com
mand prisoners.
U. Jennings Wise was wounded, and was
cape in boat.
Col. Russell, Of the 10th Connecticut.
was Killed at the head of his regiment,
Lieut., Col. Nizier De Mantel, of the De
Eptenuiel Zouayes, whose services were
voluntary, was also killed. No other Off.
GERS were killed above tue rank of Lieu
tenant
Onttotal loss of killed and wounded is
less than 300, and the number Of killed Il
LEES than SO. We took between 9. 600 and
5000 prisoners. They were about being
sent to- New York by the S. II. SpauIding
and other steamers. Among them are
about Y or 10 Colonies, Lieut.. Colonies
and Majors.
0R3Suuddy afternoon a fleet of Is pun-
boats Started for Elizabeth City. The place
was shhlled, and having been evacuated
and n tlall y burned by the troops was oc-
! sapiee IL thete6eI aeet was sunk -or
burnt eScspt two, the Roanoke and Beam
Tort which escaped mp the cnnnI. The
Sea Bird, which was the flag ship Of Com.
LynehS was run down and boarded, and
tue Commodore escaped to the shore.
The news from Elizabeth City arrived
at hoanoke Island on Monday evening,
and the Stars and Stripes left Tuesday
morning. She stuck on the bar vt Hat
teras GU Wednesday night, but started
again m the morning and arrived here Mt
about noon to-day. The steamer Stars
and Stripes brings bearer OF dispatches
from Gen. Burnside and Com. Goldsbo.
rough. She will take car Of amunttfon
aud will return immediately.
Gen. Wise was at Nogg's Head and sue.
ceeded in escaping to Norfolk.
inc rebels msde no fight after being
driven from their entrenchments. which
was done by Hawkins Zouayes and 2lst
Massachusetts. Young Wise resisted the
stoFming parties until he was wounded !,
when he was carried of and his command
tetreated with him to the upper end of the
lslAndi where the laid down their arms,
Elizabeth City was about half burned nv
the rebel soldiers. Tho people sent off 4
deputation TO Com. Goldsbo. oupb. asking
him TO send a force to assist in extin0nisI,o
ing the flames.
Edenton was taken possession of ON
"wednesday, by Com. Golds6orough. mo
opposition being offered.
The Norfolk and Richmond papers at
tribute the loss of Roanoke Island TO the
blundering inelticiency of the navy. They
persist IN asserting that nearly / 900 Fed.
erals were killed. They charge some Ro.
anokc Island farmer with having deserted
and PtlOted the Yankees to the only point
where they could effect landing. the
Island being ilanked on all sides by An ex.
tenstve marsh.
Dispatches from Memphis to Norfolk
admit that the Federal flag was cheercd
on the Tennessee river by the people, and
assert tLat the Federals neither seizel ar
destroyed any private properly, not even
Governor LetelIer has issued an order
for the formation of home guards for Nor
/ folk, Petersburg and Richmond.
Messrs. Ames aud Fish returned to Bal.
ttmore, the rebels refusing to receive them.
Fonr hundred released Federal prisoners
Will reach old Point on Friday or Satur.
Another account says tue enemy were
pursued for several hours and two com
plete regiments on their way to reinforce
tue Fort were captured, not Knowing Of it's
surrender. Every road WAS lined with
guns, kpapsacks, eloIhipg, and with the
wounded, dead and dying.
Ex-GoTernor Wise escaped from No.gs
Head, but his son eas shot through both
legs and lung. H6died the following jay.
Acting Brigadier Gen. Hill, Coils. Shaw
Jordan and Green were captured, with a
large number OF subordinate officers.
When the result of the field fight be-
came known, Forts Baston, BLANCHARD and
Forest were evacuated aud The floating bat.
terry on the main laud was blown up.
The rebels blorkaded the channelround
Chooton Sound by diving piles aud sink.
: ing vessels. The enemy fired the town on
retreating.
The federal gpnboad Com. Perry run
down the rebel Flag Ship Sea Bird having