Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1864-04-29


by Gen. Bragg
Plymouth A g., Ap,a 40 To General
Brsxton Bragg have stormed and carried
the place capturing one Bridgadier and 600
prisoners. Stores and 25 pieces Of artillery
(Signed) II. +. HoKE, Brig. Gen.
A tele, I'M was also received by the rebel
President from Col. John Taylor Hood dated
Rocky Mount, 2lst, giving further particulars
Of the capture Of Plymouth, with naval CO.
operation
He says about $500 prscneas were taken
including 800 or 400 negroes, 80 pieces Of
artillery. Also, 100000 lbs. meat, 1000
bbls. flour and full garrison outfit. Our
(rebels) loss was about 500 in all. Col.
Nierce was among the killed. Two gunboats
were sunk, another disabled and a small
steamer captured.
FORTRESS MONROE, April "a.
The following has been received here:
HEADQUARTERS or THE ARMY oF I
North Carolina, April q
General Orders No. &c.
With feelings of the deepest sorrow the
Commanding General announces the fall OF
Plymouth, N. c.. and the capture Of its gall
liant commander, Brig. Gen. Ii. w. Vessels,
and his command This result, however,
/ they did not obtain until after the most gall
| LIANT and determined resistance had been
made. Five times the enemy stormed the
/ lines Of the General, and as many times we're
they handsomely repused with great slaugh-
ter. But for the powerful resistance Of the
rebel iron clad ram and the floating arp
shooter battery, the Cotton Plant Plymouth
would still have been in our hands For
their noble defence the gallant Gen. Vessels
and his brave band have deserved the warm
est thanks OF the whole country, while all
will sympathise with them in their misfortune.
To the officers and men Of the navy the COM
maDding General tenders his thanks for their
hearty cooperation with the army and for
the bravery and determination which mark
ed their part of the unequal contest. With
sorrow he records the death of the gallant
patriot, Lieut.. Commanding G. w. Frusse,
who, in the heat of the battle, fell dead on
the deck Of the chip, with the lanyard of the
gun in his hands. The commanding General
believes that these mistortunes will tend not
to discourage but nerve the army of North
Carolina to equal deeds of bravery and gall
lantry hereafter, until further orders.
BY order of
MAJ. GEN. PECK.
Capt. Weatherbee of tho 23d Mass. Regi-
men; has just arrived from Roanoke Island.
He says that Gen. VESSEL surrendered to
the rebels on Wednesday the goth inst, when
the rebels took possession of Plymouth, after
four days fighting
Our loss il so killed and $500 captured.
The rebel loss is 500 killed.
| A Newbern letter to the Traveller says
that eight OF nine other officers and men were
wounded on board the gunboat Miami by the
recoi of the shell which killed Capt. Flusser.
Ei gineer Harrington and an ensign were a.
mong the number. The writer also says the
same gun was then loaded with solid steel
pointed shot. and several times discharged
upon the ram, but without ehect-the terri
BILE missiles glancing harm ossiy from the
wel-sIushed roof of the iron-clad. The fleet
will engage the ram should 1t make lts APP
pearance at the mouth of the river, or in the
sound, where they could have sea room to
| fight. The ram is described about 40
feet long, with an oval roof much like the
back of u turtle, and so strong in timber and
plating to be impeTyious to hundred pound,
steel pointed, solid shot, at distance OF not
more than twenty feet She draws but five
/ feet Of water, and is about that distance out
of water.
The late Lieut. Commander Flusser wrote
a dispatch to Admiral Lee on the evening Of
the eighteenth six hours before he received
his mortal wound, stating that he was ex-
pecting the rebel ram down that night or the
next day, and that he hoped to Whip her as
be intended to fight her with the Miami lash-
ed to the Southheld
1t is asserted in naval circles that there is
not one monitor afJat that does not draw too
much water to pass over the bar at the mouth
of Alternate Sound. Several monitors Of
light draft are being built by contract, and
were to be completed prior to the first Of
October last, but the work on them was de-
iayed by the strikes of the workmen and 9TH
er causes.
A telegram of the ODD says The battle
which had been going on night and day at
Ply mouth, from Sunday the 18th till We'd
nesday the 20th, resulted in the capture Of
the city by the enemy Wednesday noon, in
GLIDING Gen. Vessels aud his force OF 1900
men. The enemy obtained possession of the
town at o'clock in the morning. General
Vessels and his troops retired into For. w IL
liams, and held GU. until noon, repulsing the
enemy in seven desperate assaults. The reb-
ell loss is said to be 100, while our loss was
slight Gen. Vessels has mNde in this siege
a most heroic resistance with his little band
of veterans. He and Gen. Peck had both
asked 5000 more men before the battle. Two
companies belonging to the I'd North Carroll
ma Union volunteers we're among the captured
} and most of them were taken out and shot by
the rebels after our forces had surrendered.
All the negroes found in Federal uniform
were also shot