The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-02-27
Disastrous Defeat of the Union
Forces.


Our IS Estimated at One Thousand
In Killed, Wounded and Missing.
The steam Sleep Hsusatsnic Sunk
by = Torpedo. =, ,s.-
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Two Onlcers and Three Seanscn
Drowned.
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The Steamers Gen. Burnside and Harriet
{ Weed Lost in st. Johns River.
Reconnaissance Up the Savannah
River,
h., de-, &c.
The steam transport Fulton Captain Walton, from Pors
Royal 24h inst, arrived at this port night She
brings important news.
Purser McMapus viii accept our thanks for favors re-
ceived.
battle ha, taken place = Florida. The battle ground
Oustee.
Our special dispatches, which should arrived by
the Fulton, detained by orders from Gilmore.
but learn through private sources that steamer
Cosmopolitan bad arrived Hilton Head wounded
troops board from Jacksonville and bringing report
that the troops which bad advanced toward Lake City
had been repulsed and driven back on Jacksonville
Three hundred wounded were board.
IL 10 asserted that we lost 900 men in killed. wounded
and missing.
TIE Union forces were largely Outnumoered.
Renforcemeu.s the way to Florida from Hi
| ton Read.
10 not improbable that the above report s somewhat
exaggerated.
The 7,.s sousA Of the Goth inst eou,siDs tho follow
| ing
I'VE are prevented by military restrictions from pub
fishing In full the letters Of correspondents nh
army in Florida yhs railroad nom Jacksonville 10 In
good condition, and learn hat rolling stock win
DO plsCed upon H. which viii materially lessen the din
cuss Of the campaign Baldwin being in possessiou
command the line Of railroad from TesnaDdpa and
from Jacksonville, and can either point base Of
supplies. and II needed, BOTH"
Loss OF the Steamers General Burnside
and Harriet w ecd IN %. Johns River.
The United States steam transport General Burnside
grounded on st. Johns bar and became a tota, wreck.
Crew oil saved
The quarermasiers steamer Harriet Weed while pro.
essding up the st. Johns grounded She -as blown
UP By Der crew to prevent her falling into bands Of
the enemy
| The United states Steam Sisop Housa.
tonic Sank by . Torpedo.
The following Intelligence received at Port Royal
9. c.. from the bIockadiog feet or Charleston, an
nouncns the loss Of the soop ofwar Housa,oDc capts
Pickering, Thursday, the 18Th instant, at O'Clock
m. The circumstances said DO folIows-ybs
watch on deck perceivng something floating with Tho
current, which to him at first resembed a porpose,
reported the the officer the deck whe,eupon
| Captain Pickering notified, and he, being sus-
| plcious OF the object, Immediately gave or
doris to clip the cable and get under way;
which order put into execution, bnt oil pur-
pose, for tho rebel propeller torpedo Davis
Nhe New Ironsidss' old ond) struck her on The
board quarter, and 10 . short space OF sunk
OF Beach Inlet. Two officers and three men were lost
| The balance OF the officers and crew were saved by
cngng tho rigging uotl rescued By tho boats Of the
Deet.
p Muzzy, Captains Clerk and Mr.. Hazletos Fcsigu
the officers lost.
Expedition 60 Within Five Miles or Sal
vannah-Capturs or Twenty Rebels.
On Sunday las. f2lst insl), small force Of troops,
under command Of Colonel lowell, Ief BIZ Head in
transports, aud proceeded up the Savannah river viii
liams Island arriving at that place about dark,
q company or men, under Captain Greenleaf,
Of the Fourth New Hampshire, landed 10
small boats sad made reconnaissance tho course Of
which they met small body Of tho enemy, and smart
musksry firing ensued We four men Of the Eighty
hfn Pennsylvania Volunteers wounded. The epemys
loss greatly ou,numbered our own. On Monday morning
Colonel Howell withdrew his force, arriving Hilton
Head Monday night, 22d inst, bringing with him
twenty Of the rebels which his men captured on tho
island.
The reconnaissance highly successful ard rejected
much honor upon those who participated 10 u.
The Ganboas Harriet Lane.