Washington telegraph., 1862-02-05

TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY last
closed with the lameDtable account Of the
battle Of Fishing Creek-the death Of
Zollicoffer-- and the route Of our army
Subsequent accounts have, in the main.
confirmed all the tidiDgs.
Dispatches from Nashville of the 2Sth
say that upon our side there were eight
regiments engaged in The fight, between
four and five thousand strong. The enemy
had twenty one regiments, consisting Of
the combined commands Of Generals Tho
mas and Schoeff. Crittenden at last ac
counts, had rallied nearly all his forces,
and was encamped near Livingston. On
tile 26th 96 wounded soldiers arrived az
Knoxville. Four Of our surgeons who
had refused 10 leave the sick and wound
Cd were taken prisoners 1t Fishing Greek
Major Fogg, one Of ZJlIicoffers aids,
wounded in the battle died on Saturday
2Jth inst. aud his remains were carried
10 Nashville. The official Federal report
of this battle, telegraphed from Richmond
Jan. (2Slhl gives the enemy's loss as ~
killed, and l27 wounded, amongst th"
wounded Col. Cook Of an Ohio regiment
Confederate loss III killed and buried,
l16 wounded prisoners, 45 prisoners IN
wounded, ) Of whom were surgeons e.
mouy-t them was 1t Col Carter OF the
18th Tenn. Regt From Louisville papers
IF the 9th it has been ascertalned that
the bodies Of Gen Zolicoffer and Bailic
PIyton, jur,, have been buried with the
hnnors Of war BY the enemy, and that their
remains await the demands Of their friends
A special dispatch 10 the Union and
American from Knoxville (24th) has the
following additional particulars Of the
battle Our forces ! Or > thousand in
number ,nnder Gen. Zolliccffer, left the
encampment ot Mill Spring az L. o'clock
Saturday night. They found the enemy
eleven miles distant at Fishing Creek and
made the attack Gen Zyllicoffer and hi
aids Major Fvgg aud Shields were shot
early in the action The engagement
lasted nearly all day The enemy were
repulsed three times, but were largely re-
inforced greatly outnumtering US. We
then fell back to our eDtrenchments at
Mill Spring, and crossed the river in the
night. Gen Crttenden rallied his forces
and made a stand at Monticello eight
miles from the river, where he had been
reinforced and was ready for the enemy
Ammunition, subsistence, &c, had been
forwarded from Knoxville, and large
force Of cavalry and battery Of artillery
sent forward to reinforce him.
The Federals who advanced in such
large force towards Eari>, Tenn, and me
naced Forts Henry and Dynolson have re-
tired. Our last accounts are from Paris
of the 10Th stating that they were re-
treating towards Paducah. 4 dispatch
from Fort Henry Of the 9th Informs u
II tile return Ut Col Miller's command
sent in pursuit, with the intelligence that
the enemy was still retieating, with hi
advance guard within IL miles Of Paducah.
despatch from Cairo NJ the 9th re-
ports that eleven Of THE boats composing
be PuntUon bridge at Paducah had been
stopped, floating by that place, and that
the bridge had doubtless been destroye \.
he Burnside expedition seems u b.
meeting with succession Of bad ia X
4 Richmond DESPATCH of the 9th says
that il was reported III Baltimore, that
five Vt The ye,s H., gr iundel id Pamlicu
Sound aud we're burn tn prevent falling
into lhc HANDS of thl rebels: II was also
stated at Fortress Monroe that tile steamer
Louisiana Of that expedition, ha been
ru-t with 700 troops. A Richmond des-
patch VI the next day (25sh) informs u-
that il was stated In Congress that day,
that message had been received bv a
high government officer, 10 the effect that
most of the vessels were wrecked aud the
expedition . failure, The New York
! Herald Of tha 2ith had received no new.
" the expedition. The Brtimore sun OF
the 18th speaks of the great storm which
had prevailed along the coast, as having
! given rise 70 fears about the expedition.
| a subsequent despatch from Richmond
| 29th, has the following:
Richmond, Jan. 29.-COl Singletary,
commanding reconnoiterng expedition,
| infurms the Newbcrn, N O. Progress that
he arrived at Portsmouth, y. G on Wed
nesday evenin,, after the storm had con
menced, rendering it impossible to make
observations himself. lie says he saw re-
liable men who had been applied to by
| the directors Of the feet to act as pilots.
| who said the feet was at Hatteras, ncm
bering l13 vessels; also representing their
furce aboard at $4,000 Ole-thlrd Of the
feet was in the Sound Oh Tuesi1y--one-
third ID the Roads, and one third outside,
| busy tightening vessels over the Swase.
They sald the Yankees were anxious 10
gct pilots for the sound and rivers. Undue
ing the opin.o on that X enoke, Elenton
and Washington, aud they thought per-
haps other places east Of Newbern would
be attacked.
Ii is rendered certain that Newbern will
be visited, as the vessels of the Yankees
are tightening, and could not attack any
other pace. They also learned from the
Yankees that they had lost three vessels
and three men since reaching Hatteras
They also learned that NeS Orleans would
be attacked simultaneously with the attack
ID the Sound. The effect Of the storm on
Thursday and Friday, upon the Yankees,
must have been severe. Portsmouth was
completely covered with water; nothing
as TO the condition of the Yankees ha>