The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1865-01-28
SUN NARY OF NEWS.

A correspondent Of the New York Tiil,:iIe
writes us follows of the blowing up of Fort
Caswcll, under date of January 18th The
enemy have Just blown up Fort Caswcll and
destroyed all the blpcknde-runncrs inside the
bar The explosion shook the vast creation
round " Ike an earthquake. The approach of
orr gun-boats over tie bar at New Inlet has
destroyed their last hope. This is undoubtedly
the signal for the abandonment and destruction
of al the Rebel works in Cape Fear river. So
the work goes bravcly on There is II very
handsome steamer, Chckamauga, up the river
which we are bound to have if she is not DIES.
troycd
Gen Whiting and Col. Lamb, the officers in
command of Fisher, were evidently selected for
their tcnacity and courage. They are both
wounded, the General only seriously wounded
and Lamb also severely in the hip, with para
lysis Of the lower cxtIemit.es. He is represent
ed by bis men us something of a lion. During
the preparatory cannonading, his men say that
he mounted one of the travc"Ses and waved his
sword in defiance at our men-oi-war. At TIE
same instant shell struck the other officer, and
took off his head. Lamb stopped, and taking
off the officers sword and waving both high in
air, cried out: " Come on, you Yankee suns of
b-s!' This exhibition Of adolescent rage is
told to show the courage of the Colonel re-
! member when boy OF seeing II wicked and de-
in heavy storm of lightning and thunder, and
shake his puelilc fists ut the clouds, and defy
! the Almighty.
In conversation with one of the medical Off
GERS, General Whiting remarked that if he had
had control we should not have been permit ed
to throw up entertainments across the peninsula.
When lie saw we We're allowed to land and en-
trench he regarded the capture of the Fort only
rs Il question of time. 81 don't see what they
|
General Bragg. Had my guns not been dis
mounted, You would not have taken the work"
But we came here to take it, said the Doctor,
"and should have done so any way, sooner or
later. In seven hours we had II line OF entrcnch
ments across which would have enabled us to
defy tire whole of General Lees army"
General Whiting, it is said, mounted the works
when he saw the first flag uufurlcd the second
traverse of the fort, and rallying his men, at
tempted to snatch away the guidon from the hand
of the Union soldier. At that instant he re-
ccivcd his wound, which disabled him for the
remainder of the fight.
| The prisoners, we'll are about | 900; sick and
dead, 80, making about 1900 all told.
- Additional details of General Grierson's
raid have been received. General Grierson left
Memphis OH the DIST ult. with about three thou
sand cavalry, and arrived at Vicksburg on the
9th inst, having in the meantime destroyed
about seventy miles of the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad and thirty miles of the Mississippi
Central Railroad, with all their bridges and vast
amounts of Rebel military stores and railroad
running stock factories, &c. defeated and
scattered the Rebels who opposed him at differ
ent points, cut their communications and play
ed general havoc with them. During the expe-
dition General Grierson's men marched four
hundred miles, and met with II loss of less than
one hundred in killed. wounded and missing,
reaching Vicksburg with nearly six hundred
prisoners, about one thousand coutrabands, and
the same number of horses and mules.
Six hundred of the eight hundred Rebels
captured by the Union forces at Fort Gaines
Mobile Bay, were recently exchanged in Mobile
harbor OF the other two hundred some have
died and the others have taken the oath of allie
glance At the time of their delivery by the
Union authorities the steamer Waverly was
lying at Mobile laden with one thousand bales
| of cotton, which were to come North to be sold
for the benefit of Rebel soldiers in Northern
prisons.
We have brief but authentic accounts of
movement by the Rebel iron-clad fleet on the
James. Five vessels came down the river on
Tuesday, hoated over the distractions sunk by
Gen Grant for the protection of our navy, and
engaged the land batteries in the neighborhood
of City Point. One of the iron -clads got aground
and was abandoned and blownup Two others
We're so heavily peppered by our batteries that
they quickly gave up the fight, ran back up the
river and were ingloriousy followed by their
consorts. One dispatch intimates that there
was want of watchfulness on board our ships,
and another account is that Admiral Farragut
has gone down to take command
On the 18th our entire force, under General
Alfred II. Terry, advanced toward Wilmington,
and were reinforced by heavy column of vet
eran troops from the South, believed to be under
command of General Howard.
Our lignt-draft gunboats, of all descriptions,
We're up the Cape Fear river. moving up eau
tiousy towards Wilmington, searching for tor
pedoes and relaying the buoys.
The fleet got out of sight up the river as soon
as possible, and five steamers, thus deceived
had fallen into our hands as prizes. All were
valuaby laden. In the distribution "Poor
Jack" will fare WE'LL
Other blockade runners will yet be caught, as
there is no means of getting the news of our
victories to Nassau for month or so.
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