The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-21

by ball through tho groin and the latter |
BY ball entering his right breast - |
They both died in the trench, 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 assaulting
party, persisting in exposing himself to
relieve the necessities Of his wounded
comrades, was shot down and died in the
trenches. He is the surgeon who volun-
teered to carry hawser to the Weehaw-
ken when she was aground under the
walls of Moultric and subjected to &C.
we're fire.
The number Of officers wounded is
unprecedented. Lieutenant Wallace, Of
tho marine corps, from on board the Sus
quehanna, received shot in the thigh,
causing a compound fracture; Lieute.
nant Cushman, of the Wabash, wound
in leg; Lieutenant Commanding Allen,
of the Tuscarora, wounded in the arm
Lieutenant Bache, Of the Powhatan,
wound in arm; Ensign Harris, of the
Powhatan, wound in leg Ensign Evans,
of the Powhatan, both legs wounded;
Lieutenant Commanding Lamsdcn, Of
the Gettysburg, slight wound in arm;
Captain Dawson, who commanded the
marines, was also slightly Wounded;
Arthur +. Allrich, masters mate, Tus-
carora, right thigh aud back l.. Il. Ches-
ter. acting ensign from Pontusuc, right
Thu h; John F. Merry, acting ensign Of
Osceola. both thighs; Joseph NJ. Simms,
masters mate Of Minnesota. right thigh.
These are only portion Of the wounded
officers
THE MILITARY ASSAULT.
We could see from the fleet but little
Of what was going on west of the fort,
further than the occasional glimpse Of
the prolonged contest, which had not
closed when darkness set in, and could
then only be inferred from the flashes Of
the ,nusketry observable on the ramparts
and in the interior Of the work.
Acting Masters Mate S. W. Kemp
ton. of the Santiago, was sent on shore
in charge Of boat placed at the service
Of General ferry, and being invited by
one Of the staff to join them in the as
sault, actually entered the fort with Cen
eral Curtis, acting as his aid. He re-
presents that the assaulting party ad
vanced while the garrison were repelling
the naval assault, and had succeeded
by suddenly capturing the guard of thirty
men at the sally-port, manning two how
itzcrs loaded with grape, and shooting
down and driving back the sharpshooters
IN the ramparts-in gaining an entrance
and footing on three of the mounds
before the general attention Of the gar
rison was directed to them. The gallant
fellows engaged in this bold and hazard
Gus work were the One Hundred and
Forty-sccond New York-thc same men
who snatched the flag from the ramparts
under Butler, and have now secured the
fort itself. Their approaches were con.
Quoted scientifically, and they being each
armed with "nine Shooters" swept
down their opponents as they advanced,
who, having to stop to load, were yirtu-
ally disarmed.
Their supports rushed on as soon as
the flag was raised, and then commenced
one Of the severest contests that the war
has furnished for the possession of a
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 des-
perate perseverance and bravery, both
by the assaulting party and the garri-
son. Mound after mound was captured,
until nine of the seventeen were in our
possession, at 9 o'clock at night, when
General Curtis, who led the assaultng
party, determined to make one more
charge on the enemy, and if that failed,
to hold on to the half that was in his
possession until the morning. just as
he was about to make the charge, white
flag was raised by the garrison, and pos
session given Of the entire work. The
prisoners were at once placed in the
bomb proofs and kept under guard until
this morning, when they were marched
out and numbered, with those who es-
capped and were subsequently recaptured,
over one thousand eight hundred pri-
Yates and one hundred officers, including
Major General Whiting, the commander
of all the works on the coast, and Bri-
gadicr- General Lamb, the commander of
Fort Fisher both Of whom are wounded,
the latter, it is thought, MORALLY.
The loss of the army III this assault
and the subsequent contest for the pos
session of the work is seven hundred
aud fifty in killed and wounded
The gallant General Curtis, who accom-
panied General Butler, but who disa-
greed 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 canturef3 in tho