The New York Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1862, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 9288. JME INTEGRITY OF THE UNION. The Brilliant Events in Pamlico Sound, on Pasquotank River, and in Albemarle Sound. OUR ACCOUNTS OF THE BATTLES. ADDITIONAL REBEL DETAILS. CAPTURE OF EDENTON. Official Reports of Gen. Burn- side, Flag Officer Goldsbo- rough and Com. Rowan. The Wild Statements of Our Loss by the Rebels Contradicted. Only Fifty Unionists Killed and One Hundred and Fifty Wounded. COLONELS RUSSELL AND DE MONTEIL KILLED. Death of the Rebels 0. Jennings Wise and ; ‘Commodore Lynch. Three Thousand Rebel Prisoners Bn Route for Mew Work. Roanoke Island, Elizabeth City and Eden- ton Occupied by Unionists. Splendid Achievements of Our Troops. SPIRITED ORDERS OF THE DAY. WHO WON THESE VICTORIES? SKETCHES OF OUR HEROES, a, &e., &. ©u the morning of the Sth inst. the Burnside expedi. tion left Hatteras and at once proceeded on their way to ‘the point of attack. That night the whete fleet anchored of Stumpy Point, and the ext moraing they went to the entrance of Crotom Sound. Commodore Goldsborough Jea@ing the way. 4 reconnosseance was made on Friday ‘Moraing, after which the sttack was commenced by Commodore Goldsborough, wbo wason board of the South. Geld. She amd the gunboat Caderwriter opened fire ‘wpom the rebel forte and batteries at e:even o'clock in ‘the morning. The gunboats and vessels of the rebe's were attacked ‘by our boats and were exak or destroyed The Fanny, ‘the little propeller that wes taken from ue some short time ago by the rebels, was in tae fight and was burned. Our boats advanced to the attack 1a three columns—the rat being led by the guoboat Siars and Stripes, under ‘the command of Captain Warden: the second by the Louisiana, in charge of Captain Dunnay; and the third by the Hetzei, under charge of Captain Davenport The gunboats that were nearest to the forts and batteries, were the Cores, Putnam, Vai. ley City, Commodore Perry, Brinker and the Whitebcad, all the others were in the immediate vicinity, but tbe above named boats were the c.osest in ‘One of the shots of the enemy took effect {n ite bow of the Louisians, but no one was in th ast njured by it ‘The Hetzel lost one man she burst one of he: rifted Parrott guns. Some sp:endid firing was made ty the gunboat Hunchback, and the groates pra.se was cbower @4@ upon all for the iwdomitabie courage displayed upon the occasion At six o'clock in the evening. after » hard day's Ogbi ng, Commodore Goidsborougs # galled cur feet from his Gagship to cease Gring, and to w'thdraw ‘or the me ‘being, which order was a: once compiies w' Tn the meantime the eroldiers were being ianded op Roanoke Isiand, and, as the 0.gbt edvanced, there was uaaad seidiers ianded wing taliea bees dDeDind in grenchments on the ceutre of ibe .sia03, ad0us four oF ive miles from the shore ‘The first points ettacked were ‘he forts, which returned ‘our fire with hearty good will, ani with a courage ana « determined perseverance worthy of a better cause vut they were at last compelled to give way from whe terrific force of our united fire, the ground tn the vicinity baving the appearance of newly ploughed iud from the thou sands of ebeils that bad Burst acd scattered devasiation everywhere within their reach. On Saturday morning some five or six thousand men swere landed in addition to those vhat wero aircady placed on the shore, and skirmishers wore at once deployed to reconnoitre, and the resuii of their march was the discovery of a masked batsery, mounting three gems. This was at once attacked by the Hawkins Youaves, fianked by the Twenty-first and ihe Twenty-frth Marsachusetis regiments. J+ was carried at the point of the Dayonet, and a more gallant and successful ebarge wan seldom witnessed. The brave fellows rushed at it determined to ‘‘do or die.’ The regiments that suffered most were the Tw Gfth Massachusetts and the Tenth Connecticut. who lost several men during the charge ‘The conflict was hot, the possession of the battery veing Gotly contested by the rebels, but after an hour or wo they were obliged to yield to the prowess of the ‘Wnion troops, and the battery was abandoned. Our men followed them closoly, and surrounding them held them as prisoners. Among the others whe reli on our side in this engagement was the Jamented Colouet Russell, o¢ the Tenth Connecticut regiment, who was killed while 8 the head of his men, cheering and leading them on to wiotory, and “Lieutenant Colonel De Montell, of the D'Epineuil Zouaves, who bad nobly volunteered his wervices for thie occasion. No other officer of rank was killed who held a rank above that of a lieutenant General Wise’s son commanded the rebels at the tim? of the attack by tho Zouaves and others, and resisted th® storming portion bravely unt, owing to & wound that he received, he had to be carried off the field, his com. mand retiring a short distance, when they laid aown their arms. ‘The total number supposed to be killed and wounded on the part of the Union treops is about two hundred, of which number some fifty were killed, We took somo Awenty-eight hundred prisoners, together with every. thing belonging t6 them. Among them are several offi- cors of very high standing in the rebel army. After this glorious victory on Saturday afternoon, a fleet of fifteen of our gunboats was despatched towards Fiisabeth City, and, upon arriving within range, the city was sholled; but this was almost unnecessary, ag the \t habitants, or at least some of them, upon hearing of the approach of the Union forcor, applied the firebrand to gifforont portions of the city, and in a short time it was NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, a u 1862, AA ARR ARAN THE BRILLIANT VICTORY AT ROANOKE. Scene of the Great Success of General Burnside and Commodore Golds- ‘borough---Roanoke Island and Its Rebel Batteries. ALBEMARLE ROBERTS IS: Y ASHBYY HARB _TBOOPS. wrapped in flamer—far more torrible in their destruction than any attack could have been. It was evidently the work of others than the residents of the place, as an appeal was made by some of the eitizens to our navat officers to send on shore a force to assist them in battling with the flames; but an order had been issued to the effect that ne person should be permitted to Jand, 80 as not to give the people of the place an oppor. tunity of saying that the torch of the incendiary was applied by any band but their own. The place was about half burned at the time it was occupied by the Union troops. Shortly after, the gunboats proceeded to Eden. ton, which was taken possession of by Commodore Golds- borough, without the least opposition having been offered. Edenton is quite a flourishing little town of some one thousand seven hundred inbabitants. It is a post town, @ portof entry and capital of Chowan county, North Carolina, and is situated at the head of Edenton Bay | which opens into Albemarle Sound, a little below the mouth of Chowan river, one hundred and fifty miles east of Raleigh It 1s one of the principal towne in the north- eastern part of the State, carries op considerable trade, | and is only sizty six miles south of Norfolk, Va. In June, 1852, one thousand six hundred and forty tons of shipping were owned and employed in the coast trade, and during that year three schooners, with an aggregate burthen of two hundred and fifteen tons, were built: Edenton was settled in 1716, and contains asplendid court house, a jail, twochurches—one Episcopal and one Metbodist—an academy and one printing office issuing a weekiy newspaper. Edenton is the key to the road around the Diemal Swamp, over which our troops can march to Suffolk. Suffolk is the juaction of the Seaboard and Roanoke Rail- road and tbe Norfolk and Petersburg and Richmond Rai!- road, Suffolk ence occupied by our troops, will isolate Norfolk from those piaces by ‘and, and give us possession of the janctroa of three impcrtant railroads—the Sea. board and Roanez? Rasiread, aod the Norfolk and Peters- evening and upon Stripes was at once d reception (be gunboat Stars and atched to Fortress Monroe with 8 received with the New York greatest oy, ana as occe tent of OUR SECOND REPORT. ‘The expedition ieft Hatteras on Wednesday morning, ‘ho Sth nat , and entered Creatn Soun d éarly on Friday morning she itb, Flag Officer Goldeborough’s fleet in ad. a nee When abresat # Pork Paint, Powt and Roanoke isiand, a on the fees A reconnoissance by the Underwriter showed that the enemy had obstructed the passage by sinking vessels and driving piles (he eotire width of Croatan Sound; that abov® this barricade were eight gunboats, and that in addi- tion to the battery on Pork Poimt, named Fort Bartow, wore Fort Bianchard, four guns and Fort Huger on Weir's Point, four guns, and Fort Forrest, eight guos, on Red gtone, oo tbe west side of the Sound, opposite Weir's Pont, a4 of which bore s0 a8 to play on our fleet should 4 attempt to pase Use barricade ‘The fleet immediately advanced in three columns to attack Pore Pomt battery and the rebelgunboate, At ball past @even (he engagement beeamo gener: jess than an bour the rebel fleet retired , the Cu; 9° Mach disabled thal he was run agrownd under Fort Forrest. Our feet now concentrated its fire on Fort Bar. dow, ate rai of three-quarters to one mile, which was as near as the water would allow our boats to approach At first the fort replied vigorously, but gradually slack. ened its fire. The resis was, however, stubborn ‘The flag was shot awa: on fire, and the work ploughed up by our el About two P. M. General Burnside’s forces commences landing at Ashby's Harbor, about two miles below Pork Point. A rebel force of 2,000, with three pieces, wassta tioned in the woods to oppose them. Our the woods and scattered the revels in all directions. Our men were taken in small steamers and launcher ae near the shore as possib! middie at @ step for upwards of & quarter of a mile. Between three and four o'clock the rebel fleot returned to the attack vigorously, and an engagement ensued be tween it and several of our gunboats, while the remain. der kept up the fire on Fort Bartow. in an hour the rv bel gunboats retired tho second time, several of them disabled. Fort Bartow fired but seldom now, At six o'clock Flag @Mfcer Geldsborough signalized our flect to withdraw, after an action of seven or eight hours Many of our gunboats were struck, but none of thetn »: riously damaged, The casualties were three killed a: eight of ten wounded Meanwhile the land foress continued the debarkation and by midnight had 9 force of nearly 11,000 men on R bout midway between the inch gun battery opened Map of Roanoke Island, Albemarle Sound, Elizabeth City, Edenton and Other Important Points, Sunso URSA Mies oe nN Natal aA anoke Island. The enemy were intrenched on the centre of the island, four or five miles distant, At an early bour on Saturday morning General Forter commenced a forward movement, followed by the entire force under General Reno an@ General Parks. At about haif.past eight Genoral Foster came up with the enemy, defended by # three-gun earthwork, flanked on both sides by what was deemed an impassable morass, the only approach to which was @ narrow causeway, on which their guns bore, Ip the battery and vicinity were from two to three thousand men, Our artillery, which consiated of six ploces frem the naval launches, was placed im front by Gen. Foster, who ad the immediate command, Gea. Burnside being at the point of landing. ‘The infantry and artillery opened on both sides with vigor. Our reinforcements, as they arrived, were placed vith the view of penetrating the morass on both sides, so to flank the battery. Our men steadily advanced, closing around the on my, under a hot fire from all sides, and euffored #e erely. st about eleven o’clock the New York Ninth, Hawkins om A pace’ S\ANN OURT HO 4 id Zouaves, received the order to charge, and under tue fire of the enemy : harged up tho caiseway, a distance of upward of half a mile, yelling themselves and cheered in the wildest manper by the entire force. The enemy ve- came panic strici wud as the Zouaves entered they went out, fleeing preeipitately, leaving everything be- hind them. As #00n a8 porsible Gen. Reno took up the pursuit, fol. lowed by Gon, Foster, who kept up the pursuit ot the main foree of the enemy, while Gen. Reno went towards | Fort Hager , whore a body of rebols had fled, At the same time Colonel Hawkins was sent with bis rogiment to the right, in the direction of Shallowback Bay The enemy in their fight strewed the road with guns, equipments, and everything that they could throw away. ‘The panic and rout were complete. When close on their heeis, and near the upper part of the island, General Fos- ter was met bya fing of truce from Colonel Shaw, de. manding terms of capitulation. General Foster replied that the surrender must be unconditional and immediate, These terins were accepted, and about 1,500 lait down their arms. Meanwhile General Reno came up with a body of 800 under Colonel Jordan, who surrendered uncondi- ““Golodsl Hawkins found the battery at Shallowback Bay deserted, but took several prisoners. Captain 0. Jeonings Wise was attempting to make his escape ina boat, when he was shot in three places, and died next morning. The forts were all occupied by our forces that night. ‘The rebels the same evening blew up Fort Forrest. The obstructions having been removed, our fleet entered Albemarle Sound. On Sunday Flag Officer Golsborough despatched thir. teen gunboats, under Captain Rowan, to Elizabeth City, where the rebel ficet had fed. On Monday morning eur fect attacked them, and destroyed the rebel gunboats, running them down and ®oarding them in the most gal- Jant manner. Elizabeth City was fired by the rebels. The city was entirely deserted, and the greatest panic imaginable pre- vailed. Our boats were te scour the Sound for what boats might be hid away. Our killed does not exceed forty in all, and about two Bundred wounded. Assistant Secretary of the Navy For has receive; & private letter, in which it is stated that the number of killed of our navy is about twenty, and of the army about thirty. Later rebel accounts state that Commodore Lynch has not yet been heard from. He was probably drowned during the fight. Norfolk and Richmona papers attribute the loss of Roanoke Istand to the blundering inefficiency of the navy. ‘They still persist in asserting that one thousand federals were killed. They also charge some Roanoke Island farmer with deserting and piloting the Yankees to the only point where they could effect a landing, the island Deing flanked on all sides by an extensive marsh. ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE AFFAIR. After the eamnonading of the enemy's batteries by our naval forces a landing of the military commenced abeut half-past four o’elock on Friday evening, at Ashby’s har- bor, about two and a half miles below the rebel Fort Bar- tow, of nine thirty-two-poundets. The landing was effected under cover of the guns of two of our gunboats, the Delaware and Morse, which, with the Shrapnel, dreve away and dispersed two rebel regiments that were stationed there with three field pisces to oppose their landing. Our men were up to their middies in mud and water in landing. When on shore they found the three rebe pieces in the morass. By nine o'clock P. M. that night General Burnside had landed six thousand men, and con- tinued landing them through the night at the rate of ope thousand per hour. The land movement against the enemy's batteries was commenced early Saterday morning, the feet meantime ‘engaging and silencing a shore battery ompenite it. Our forces advancing in the direction of the battery in the centre of the island, the rebels were soon driven be- hind) their intrenchmonts, ere they resisted. Bight mortars were landed from the fleet to serve as our army's field artillery, About midaay the Hawkins Zou aves and the Tenth Connecticut rogiment, under the command of Gen. Foster, made a dashing bayonet charge upon the battery commanded by young Wieo, wading knee deep through mud and water, to got at the fort, aud yelling like so many Indians. Meanwhile a detour was made on the right by General Reno, and on the left by General Foster ‘This attack from three sides decided the fate of the day. ‘The rebels fled from their intrenchments before the array of cold steel brought to bear against them. The Haw kins Zouaves leaped the front defences, bayonet in hand, as the rebels fed. Young Wise was not wounded here, as reported, but received his wound in endeavoring to escape from the island in & boat from Shailewback Ba y- ‘The boat was fred on, and he received four wounds. He was made privoner, and died on Sunday morning of bis wounds. . After the revuction of the battery in the centre of the island, Gens, Reno and Parks took « force of men, and wont down to Fort Bartow, Gen. Hill in command, and took undisputed possession of it, It had been theprinolpal point of two days bombardment by our navy. At a quarter to five P.M. of Saturday the American flag was displayed from the battery General Foster's men porened the rebels to the north end of the island, whore was also in camp, or drawn up, a Virginia regiment, that had been towed down in six schooners from the main land early Saturday gnorning: General Foster approached, and had an interview with the rebel commander, Colonel Shaw, of North Carolina, who asked him what terms he would exact, General Foster replied, ‘(An unconditional surrender,’ and consented to give him time to retarn to his camp to decide, .f not to accede to the demand, The rebel officer had hardly reached his men when the PRICE TWO CENTS. Massachusetts Twenty-fourth, burning with impatience, sprang forward in the direction of the enemy, when Culonel Shaw immediately raised a white handkerchief as @ signa) at the rebels had concluded to surrender. The rebels had proposed to cut off our passage up Croa tan Sound by a chevaus de frise of stakes extending from ‘he main land entirely across to the hea: of Roanoke Island; but out gunboats forced their way through, and Commenced the impetuous pursuit of the enemy’s fleet, which bad been drawn up behind this barrier. THE OFFICIAL REPORTS. THE CAPTURE OF ROANOKE ISLAND. GENERAL BURDSIDE TO MAJOR GENERAL M’CLELLAN. Hyapquarrens, Derartuxnr oy Nortu Canouna, ‘ROANOKE Ist.anp, Feb. 10, 1862. To Major General Grouce B. McCuxu.an, Commanding United States Army, Washington:— Gexgrat—I have the honor to report that a combined attack upon this island was commenced on the morning of the 7th by the naval and military forces of this expe- dition, which has resulted in the capture of six forts forty guns, over two thousand prisoners, and upwards of throe thousand small arms. Among the prisoners are Colonel Shaw, commander of the island, and 0. Jennings Wise, commander of the Wist Legion. ‘The latter was mortally wounded, and has sinc® died. Tho whole work was finished on the afternoon of the ‘Sth inst., after a hard day’s fighting, bya brilliant charge in the centre of the island and a rapid pursuit of th my td the north end of the island, resulting in the cap- ture of the prisoners mentioned above. We have bad no time to count them, but the number is estimated at nearly three thousand. Our men fought bravely, and have endured most man- fully the hardships incident to fighting through swamps and dense thickets, It {s impossible engagement, or to to give the details of the mention meritorious officers and men in the short time allowed for writ- ing this report, the naval vessel carrying it starting immediately for Hampton Roads, and the ze- ports of the Brigadier Generals having not yet been handed in. It is enough to say that the officers and men of both arms of the service have fought gallantly, and the plans agreed upon before leaving Hatteras were oar- ried out. 1 will be excused for saying in reference to the action that I o everything te Generals Foster, Reno aué Parks, as more full details will show. I'am sorry to report the less of about thirty-five killed, and about twe bundred wounded, ten of thes¢ probably mortally. Ameng the Killed are Colonel Russell, of the Tenth Connecticut regiment, @d Lieu. tenant Colonel Vietor de Montell, of the D’Epeneui! Zouaves. Both of them fought most gallantly. 1 regret exceedi ‘not being able to send @ full report of the killed and wounded, but will send a despateb in a day or two with full returns. 1 Deg leave to enclose a copy ef a General Order issucd by me on the 9th inst. Jam most bappy tosay that! have just received o message from Commander Goldsborough stating that (he expediton of the gunboats, against Elizabeth City and the rebel fleet, has been entireiy successful. He will, of course, send his returns to his department. Ihave the honor to be, General, your obedient ser vant, A. E, BURNSIDE, Brigadier General, Commanding Department of North Carolina. FLAG OFFICER GOLDSBOROUGH TO SECRETARY WELLES. ‘Unisep Staves Fi.sG Steamer PHLADELrau, Ory Roanoxe Ievanp, Feb. 9, 1962. Roanoke Island is ours, The military authorities struck tous yesterday. Their means of defence were truly for. midable, and they were used with a determination wer- thy of a better cause. They consisted of two elaborate ly constructed works, mounting together twenty-two heavy guns, three of them being 100-pounders, rifled; four other batteries, mounting together twenty guné, Jarge proportion of them being also of large calibre, and some of them rified; cight steamers, mounting two guns each, and each having a rifled gun, with the diameter of 8 32-pounder; a prolonged obstruction of sunken vessels and piles to thwart our advance, and, altogether, a body of men numbering scarcely less than 5,000, of whom 8,000 are now our prisoners. ‘The fighting commenced on the morning of the 7th inst. , at about eleven o'clock, and wascontinued till dark. The following morning it was resumed at an early hour and Jasted until well in the afternoon, when, by a bold cbarge by our army, the rebel flag was made to succumb. and our own was hoisted everywhere on the island iv its place. No attack copld have been more completely executed, and it was carried out precisely in accordance with the arrangements made before the expedition left Cape Hatteras Inlet. A detailed account of the operations of the nava. branch of the expedition will be forwarded to the de partment hereafter. 1 beg to submit herewith a copy of a General Order te be read on the quarter deck of each vessel belonging te that branch of the expedition. I am, very respectfully: your obedient servant. L. M. GOLDSBOROUGH, Flag Officer, Commanding North Atlantic Blockading Squadroo. To Hoy. Gipgon Writes, Secretary of the Navy. - GENERAL ORDER. Your efforts of yesterday and the day before against the enemy were alike worthy of yourselves and the sa- cred cause our glorious flag upholds. I thank youfor them, and congratulate you upon the results achieved. No Commander-in-Chief could have been more gallantly sustained, or could have desired o more gratifying display of coolness, skill and discipline We have yet more work of the kind to accomplish, anc will soon deliver her biow to crush the hydra of re- Dellion. From what! have already witnessed I am sure that you will do it well. L. M. GOLDSBOROUGH. THE CAPTURE OF ELIZABETH CITY. FLAG OFFICER GOLDSHOROUGH TO SECRETARY WELLS. Usirep States Steamen PuILADELrma, Orr Reanone, Feb. 10, 1862. } Hon. Gisonw Wetues, Secretary of the Navy:— Sia—Just as I closed my despatch to you of yesterday I received reliable information that the rebel steamers which escaped from here bad gone to Elizabeth City, and thereupon I immediately ordered Commander Rowan to take thirteen of our steamers under his command and go in pursuit of them, andalso, if practicable, to execute another service, viz., the destruction up the North river of a link of the Albemarle and Chesa- peake Canal. He dashed of with a whole heart at his work, and the way he has already accomplished the first part of it bis own prelimivary report, a copy of which I have herewith to enclose, will inform you. I have decided to send the Stars and Stripes off to Hampton Roads to-morrow, te bring me ammunition from there without delay. Mr. Van Brunt, my secretary, will go in her and pro- coed to Washington to deliver to you my despatcher and two of the rebel tags we have taken. Iam, re sp octfully, your obedient servant, L. M. GOLDSBOROUGH, Flag Officer, ko. COMMANDER ROWAN TO FLAG OFFICER GOLDSBOROUGB Uniren States Seamer Devawane, ‘Ore Euszavera Crrv, Feb. 10, 1862. Sm—I bave the happiness to report that I mer the enemy off this place this morning at nine o'clock, and after a very sharp engagement succsoded in de stroying or capturing his entire naval force, and silencing Aud destroying bis battery on Cobb's Point. ‘The only vessel saved from destruction is the Ellie Captain J. M. Cook, who is wounded and a prisoner os board this ship. I have other prisoners. lam happy to say that our casualties are few, com sidering the warmth of the enemy's firo—say two or three killed and some wounded, 1 send tho Filis to yon under command of Acting Mas tor Chase, of (hie ship, who | bepe you will confirm im the command "The conduct of the galiant mon I have the honor te command ia worthy of all praise, ‘A dotailed acoount wil, be farnished when 1 have time Tam bappy to say that nove of our vessels axe severe ly injured. " shall Jeave bere a sinall force and visit the canals ane take a look intg the other places before I return, Thave the Ronor to be, very respectfuli; ae 7. C, ROWAN, dient servant, Commander United States Navy. ORDER OF THE DAY. THANKS OF SPCRRTARY WELLES TO FLAG OPFIOND GOLDSROROTOH, OF FIUERA AND ORRWE. Navy beraiwest, Feb 14, 1862. Sin— Your despatches of the Oth and 10tb instant, by