Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-02-27
TERMS OF ADvERTIsIna.
LATER.


gentleman who left Fort Donelson Yesterday after.
at o'clock and reached here at to-day saws
that the fight had been going On all day yesterday
The right wing of the enemys forti6cations taken
aud the Stars and Stripes we're floating over them
The forces breast TO breast and the battle was to
be renewed.
STILL LATER.
CAIRO, Feb. l6.-The steamer Minnehaha arrived
here from Fort Doneson, having left the Fort at five
o'clock last evening, brinng military mail and des-
patches and hundred and fifty wounded to the hos
pital at Paducah.
The fight commenced, as before stated, on thursday
ard Friday and Saturday the contest desperate
The Illinois Eighteenth suffered severely and the Iowa
Seventeenth sustained considerable lOss
Captain Swartz' battery which was taken by the
enemy, was recaptured by our men, Two Coonels were
wounded an3 two killed The loss is heavy on both
sides.
The upper fort was taken at O'clock and the Union
flag is now floating over it. Our troops behaved with
great gallantry The gunboats st. Louis, Louisville
and Pittsburg disabled. The Minnehaha met the
mortar boats at Paducah going up.
STILL LATER.
| ST. LOUIS, Feb. 16.-Despatches received at head
quarters say that all our gunboats pretty efctua
| ly disabled except one
Commodore Foote was wounded twice, but not Sc
riousy.-
The upper redoubt taken by our troops commands
the main work of Fort Doneson and Gen. Grant tele-
graphs that he would be able 10 capture that fort to-
day (Sunday)
/ ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
CHICAGO, Feb. 16th.-The Tribunes special CORES
pondence is as follows:
| Fort DoNELsoN, Feb. Is, forenoon.-The firing COM
mepcd yesterday at daybreak and continued at inter-
walls all day. Up to O'Clock no movement or assault
by the land force had been made Night before last an
attempt made by the Rebels to take Iaylor's bat
terry, but they were repused by two regiments and
driven back beyond their entertainments.
Our loss in wounded is considerable, but so far not
more than three or four are dangerously wounded
Six gunboats arrived Yesterday: and commenced an
attack on the fort at o'clock in the afternoon The
firing very rapid and severe, and lasted hour
and twenty minutes, when gunboats fell back The
four ron-cad boats went within three hundred yards
of the fort.
Ali the Rebel river guns, except SIX either dis
mounted or senced The first shot fred from the gun.
boat Louisville dismounted the Rebels l28 FOUNDER
The Louisville received 81 shots, two of which took
CT one striking the starboad side of her deck passing
through the entire length of the boat, killing three
and breaking her tler rope short distance from the
] pilot house. The rope then managed by some Of
the hands, when she'll from the TYLER which lay some
distance asern, burst the Louisville scattering the
men at the er roE, and much disabled the sterning
tackle that the boat compelled to fall astern.
One shot struck the Pittsburg in the bows and stove
an immense hole in her which caused her to drop out
f action. The Leak however, has been stopped.
One shot struck the pilot house of the ST. Louis
passing through it between the pilots legs without
= juring him. All the boats were more or less injured
n but meme but the Louisville severely. There iv
n killed aud two wounded on the Louisville
The gdnboats will not be in a condition to renew th
+ attack before tomorrow morning. In consequence
the heghth Of the bluff which the Rebel fortifca
ons are built our cannon cannot have much effect o.
c them as on Fort Henry. Therefore it will require
much longer time to reduce this fort The Rebels hav
raised the black hag it be seen flying from ban
1t / short distance above