The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Fayetteville, N.C.) 1864-186?, 1864-03-15


house, Mrs. Reynolds. kindly invited him t.
sit while, md Rosa's encouraging smile dc
cidcd him to accept. Tea came, and still h
fingered.
After that meal they were left to together ane
Jim made good use c:f his time aid oppotuni-
ty: He proposed, and was accepted. 4 month
afterwards they were married, and Rosa left
her mothers shop for the more coa5enial
sphere. of home and family duties.
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YANKEE ACCOUNT OF THEIR DEFEAT IN FLOR
rDA.-The N. Y. Times has the following:
The steamship Fulton, Captain Woi;on
from Port n"ya! en- Wednesday last, arrived
here at a late h.':,r last night. bringing infor
nation Of a saet rere'se.. to our expedition un-
der General Seymour, in Florida.
We are unable to. give details, because afte,
the Fulton had put out into the bay at Hi.
ton Head she was boarded by the Provost
Marshal and Quartermaster, ,cith orders .fron.
Gen. Gilmore 20 depr're tile ,'as.enyers Q,
all pricate letters III their possession. thus
the letter Of the correspondent of. the Tines,
who had returned from Jacksonville on pur-
pose to send full particulars, and who had in
closed partial list Of the killed ard WOUND
ed, am ountins to tiyeahun'!rea na'sic.s, was
seized and retained until the ncxt malta week
hence.
TO apassengcr by the Fulton.w,e are in
deLted for the following main fact of the bat
Tic
On the afternoon Of the Goth, our troop
3trrnS, fifty miles beyond Jachsorsyille
and eight miles beyond Sanderso,1, On the
line ofthe Jacksonsyi:le and Tallahassee Bail
road. The battle was desperately fought
during three houvs, and ut sunset our forces,
overDoTert hy numbers, retired to SanderSun,
taking with them the greater part OF the
woun,le,l
The 7th Connecticut, 1tl, ,Aew Hampshire,
10th MASSACHUSETTS,, 4sth hnd I5ufh New
York and Sth United States were engaged. =
Col Fribley, Of the 9Th United States, was
left dead on thc-fi-ld. Colonel Reed, a Hun
garian officer, was ,nortal!y wounded
wounded. Capt. Hamilton (woundcd in the
ar,rl and 1t. Myrick, (wouhdcd in the .fcots
,.re at Gen. Gilmorc's Headquarters at Hilton
Head.
Col. Guy IIcnW, Of the 40th Mass had
three horses shot under him, but escaped un-
hurt
'"hc Cosmopolitan arrived at Beaufort on
Monday evening, with 24O of the wounded
Col. Reed among them, who was living when
the Fulton lcfs on "Wednesday.
= The enemy loss unknown. They captured
five guns.
1t is su, posed that the troops were from
Brags's army. Gen. IIardce himself was
on the field, having come to Florida on a
visit to his family. and also to form second
marriage.
Our loss is variously estimated at from 500
to 1900.
Seventy eight rebel prisoners were brought
by the Fulton.
We understand that the Purse. Of the Full
ton has list Of the killed aud wounded,
which he Will show, but will not allow to be
copied
Tns BATTLE OF OLusrEs FLA.-1n the
Philadelphia Inquirer, of the lst., full ac-
count is given Of the battle Of Olustee, Fla,
in which a disastrous defeat is fully acknow
ledged. They attribute this reverse to over
powcriny numbers on the side of the rebels.
Their loss in killed, wounded, and missing, is
placed at 200 to 500. The correspondent
of the Inquirer, writing from Jacksonville,
thus speaks of the close OF the battle:
The battle closed at dusk, and think it
rrovidential that night came in due season,
otherwise / question If eur retreat would
have been successful as it was Finding our
forces repulsed, with the reserve, (colorcd
troops) unequal to the emergency. General
Seymour withdrew his dechnated army from
the sanguinxry field, leaving our dead and
large numbers of ou. wounded to the tender
mcrc.es ofthe enemy. This was the saddest
thing connected with their battle, but | will
not question its propriety. No commander
could have done otherwise under the circuIn-
stances Another lamentable feature WAS the
abandonment Of some sixty or seventy badly
wounded men in our field hospital, quarter
Of !. mile to the rear of the fscld Of battle We,
however, left surgeon in charge, who vol
unteercd to remain 10 attend the wounded.
and accept the eremy'x hospitality and be-
come prisoner Of war.
In speaking of the manner in which the
Confederate forces were handled in the fight,
tho same correspondent says:
The rebel forces were skilfnlly handled
and they came in the fl isht in admirable order,
and fou ght with great energy and valor. They
were probably veteran troops from Savannah
and Charleston and other camps in Georgia
1t is impossible to say who commanded them
but presumed to be Gems. Gilner or Mercer
Lieut. Gen Hardes was known to be at Lake
City a week ago, and it is possible that he
m;sbt have been in command or present al
the battle.
For this disaster poor Seymour has fallen
under the ban, and one report says that Ga
more has placed him under arrsst. The Nav
York Post, in commenting upon the Florid;
disaster, says:
We hope General Gilmore viii now see th'
mistake he made in taking General Seymour
with him to the Department o. the South