Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1865-02-08

when they were brought to the flagship. Assistant
Surgeon William Longshsw, Jr., Of the Minnesota.
Who volunteered to acconpany the assaulting party,
persistag 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 severe fire.
The number Of officers wounded is unprecedent-
ed. Lieutenant Wallace, of the marine corps from
on board the SusqaehannA, received shot in the
thigh, causing . compound fracture; Lieutenant
I Oushman, Of the Wsbash, wound in leg; Lieut.
Commanding Allen, Of the Tuscsrora, wounded in
the arm; Lieut.. Bache, Of the Powhatan, wound in
leg Ensign Evans, Of the Powhatan, both legs
wounded Lieut. 0ommanding Laasdon, Of the
Gettysburg slight wound in arm Captain Dawson,
who commanded the marines, was also slightly
wounded; Arthur F. Aldrich, masters mate Tus-
earora, right thigh and back L. R Chester acting
ensign Pontusuci right thigh; John r. Merry. act
ing ensign Of Osceola, both thighs; Joseph N.
Simms 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 ort further than the O.
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 ramparts and in the interior of
the work.
Acting Masters Mate, s. W. Kenpton, of the
Santiago was sent on shore in charge of boat
placed at the service Of General Terry, and being
invited by one Of the stat to join them in the as
sault, actually entered the fort with Gen Curtis,
acting as hrs aid. He represents that the assault
ing party advanced while the garrison were repel-
ling the naval assault, and had succeeded-hy sud-
denly capturing the guard of thirty men at the
sally port. manning two howitzers loaded with
grape, and shooting down and driving back the
sharpshooters on the ramparts-in gaining an en-
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 thine Shooters" swept down their op.
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 has furnished for the pos
session OF fort 1t appeared to have been con-
structed especially for such contest as was now
progressing, and each of the seventeen mounds
were successfully fought for and struggled over with
desperate perseverance and bravery, both by the
assaulting party and the garrison. Mound after
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 to hold on to the half that as in
his possession until the morning. Just as 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,
with those who escaped and were subsequently, re-
captured over one thousand eight hundred privates
and one hundred officers, including Major General
| Whiting, the commander of all the works on the
coast, and Brigadier General Lamb, the commander
CT Fort Fisher, both of whom are wounded, the
latter it is thought, MORALLY.
The loss of the army in this assault and the H.
sequent contest 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 who disagreed with him in the
opinion that the fort could 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 Zekes
island and the Mound, is seventy-two. They were
all IN good condition, none of them being spiked,
though fourteen of the seventeen on the north front
were dlsmounted The variety Of guns is remarka.
ble, 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 CON.
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 ierceness Of the hand-to.hand en-
counter may be imagined. They fought as men
never before fought Shot and shell from the mound
and the water batteries were poured into the side
OF the fort that they had obtained possession Of and
they fought with garrison of two thousand men
familiar with every nook an6 corner of this vast
work. The fleet could do nothing to assist them,
and the rise and fall of their colors with the advance
or retiring of the reports of musket firing, we're
| viewed with intense interest.
The rebels having been driven from one mound
to another finally surrendered at hafpast o'clock,
which was the time of the first cheer we heard from
the gallant vctors.
The Legislature assembled again last Tuesday