Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-02-03

the groin and the latter by ball entering his right
breast. They both died in the trenches, and their.
bodies were not recovered until after the Fort fell
when they were brought to the flagship. Assistant
Surgeon William Longshaw, Jr., Of the Minnesota,
who volunteered to accompany the assauting party,
persistng IN exposing himself to relieve the neces-
sites Of his wounded comrades, was shot down and
died in the trenches. He is the Surgeon who
volunteered to carry hawser to the Weehawken
when she was aground under the walls of Moaltrie
and subjected to asevere fire.
The number of officers wounded is unprecedent-
ed Lieutenant Wallace, of the marine corps, from
on board the Susquehanna, received shot in the
thigh, causing compound fracture; Lieutenant
Oushrnan, of the Wabash, wound in leg; Lieut.
Commanding Allen, Of the Tuscarors, wounded in
the arm Lieut.. Bache, Of the Powhatan, wound in
leg; Ensign Evans, of the Powhatan, both legs
wounded; Lieut. Commanding Lamsdon, of the
Gettysburg slight wound in arm /; Captain Dawson,
who commanded the marines, was also slightly
wounded; Arthur f. Aldrich, masters mate, Tus-
carora, right thigh and back L. r. Chester acting
ensign POntusuc, right thigh; John-F Merry, act
ing ensign of Osceola, both thighs Joseph N.
Slmms, masters mate of Minnesota, right thigh
These are only portion Of the wounded officers.
THE MILITARY ASSAULT.
We could see from the feet but little Of what
was going on west of the fort further than the &C.
casIonal glimpse of the prolonged contest, which
had not closed when darkness set in and could then
only be inferred from the flashes of the musketry
observable on the famparts and in the interior of
the work.
Acting Masters Mate, s.. W. KsnptOn, of the
Ssn..Sss Ss sen. On shOss 10 charge q boat
invited by one of the staff Join them in the as
SAUL, actually entered the fort with Gen. Curtis,
acting as his aid He represents that the assault
ing party advanced while the garrison were repel-
ling the naval assault and had succeeded-by sud-
denly capturing the guard of thirty men at the
lly.port, manning two howitzers loaded with
grape and shooting down and driving back the
sharpshOoters on the ramparts-n gaining an en-
trance and footing on three of the mounds before
the general attention of the garrison was directed
to them. The gallant fellows engaged in this bold
| and hazardous work were the One Hundred and
| forty second New York-the same men who snatch
ed the flag from the ramparts under Butler and
have now secured the fort ITSELF Their approaches
were conducted scientifically, and they being each
armed with "nipe shooters" swept down their OPP
| ponents as they advanced, who, having to stop to
| load, were virtually dlsarmed
Their supporters rushed on as soon as the flag
was raised, and then commenced one of the sever
est contests that the war has furnished for the pos
session OF fort 1t appeared to have been con-
| structed especially for such a contest as was now
| progressing, and each of the seventeen mounds
were successfully fought for and struggled with
! desperate perseverance and bravery, both by the
aSsaulting party and the garrison. Mound after
! mound was captured, until nine of the seventeen
| were in our possession, at nine o'clock at night
when General Curtis who led the assaulting party,
| determined to make one more charge on the enemy,
and if that failed hold on to the half that as in
his possession until the morning. Just he was
| about to make the charge, white flag was raised
by the garrison and possession given of the entire
work. The prisoners were at once placed in the
bomb-proofS and kept under guard until the morn
| ing, when they were marched out and numbered,
uIfh hn a,Arr
captured, one thousand eight hundred privatcs
and one hundred officers, including Major General
| Whiting, the commander of all the works on the
coast, and Brigader General Lamb, the commander
Of Fort Fisher, both of whom are wounded, the
latter, it is thought, MORALLY.
The loss of the army in this assault and the lb-
Sequent coRteSt for the possession of the work is
seven hundred and fifty in killed and wounded
The gallant General Curtis, who accompanied Gen
eral Butler, but whe disagreed with him in the
opinion that the fOFt-eeeld not be taken, led the
assault and has painful wound over the eye
The,number of guns captured in the fort and the
adjacent works, including the batteries on Zeke's
island and the Mound, is seventy-two They were
all IN good condition, none of them being spiked
though fourteen of the seventeen the north front
were dismOunted. The variety of guns is remarka.
BILE, embracing all the most famed varieties of En-
glish manufacture, including 100 FOUNDER Arm
strong gun, mounted on a solid mahogany carriage
When it is remembered that the assault was com
menced at o'clock in the afternoon, and that the
full possession of the fort was not obtained until
after o'clock in the evening, period of six hours
some idea of the ferceness of the hand hand en-
counter may be imagined. They fought as mer
never before fought Shot and shell from the mounG
and the water batteries were poured into the side
of the fort that they had obtained possession Of ant
they fought with garrison of two thousand mer
familiar with every nook and corner of this vas
work. The feet could do nothing to assist them
and therse and fall of their coors with the advance
or retiring of the reports of musket firing, were
viewed with intense interest
The rebels having been driven frop one mound
to another, finally surrendered at o'clock
which the time of the first cheer We heard from
the gallant yictors.