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The Battle at Logan's Cross Roads. OFFICIAL. REPORT. :I" ;IA 01 CV.pi AriAi I :1' • s Com. Foote Congratulates his Fleet on the Recent Victory at Fort Henry. Union Sentiment in Tennessee. REBEL REPORTS OF THE DOINGS OF THE BURNSIDE EXPEDITION. Edenton, Hertford, and Plymouth Captured. BRILLIANT EXPLOIT OF GENERAL LANDER. ' ICAJA; SEVERAL PRISONERS CAPTURED. THE GRANTINGO PASSES TO THE SOUTH. Official Thanks of_the President to the Victorious .Forces. &c., &c., OUR ARMY CORRESPONDENCE. LETTEIt. FROM HILTON HEAD HILTON EBATi, February 7, 1862 The news you will receive by this steamer will hardly, be definite enough to prove satisfactory. You have ere now had intelligence through rebel sources of a movement in this quarter, but as no re sult has yet been obtained, any complete desorip . • Lion of what has already occurred may prove in jurious. Information is conveyed so rapidly to the enemy that it is hardly possible for newspaper wri ters to be too cautious in their reports of occurrences not absolutely and completely past. So much as I am at liberty to relate, I will, however, set forth. There are two paasages into the Savannah river, each leading into it at a point higher than Fort Pa laaki ; one on the left, another on the right bank of the stream. One is entered by Wariaw Sound, south of Tybee, and is known as Wilmington Narrows; it comes into the Savannah only a mile or two below Fort Jackson, which is itself but fear milea from the city of Savannah. The other approach is more complicated, consisting series of creeks connecting with each other, and joined in one place by an _artificial channel called Wall's Cut, and finally entering the Savannah about two miles above tort Pulaski. This chain of communications is approached from Ca libogne Sound on the inner aide of Hilton Read Island. Both of these passages were reconnoitred frequently by naval and military °Ewers during the month of January; important obstruotions found in Wall's Cut were secretly removed, under orders from General Sherman, and on the 17th of January a force of gunboats was sent into each channel to make a reconnoissance in force. Six gunboats went up Wilmington Narrows, under command of Capt.. C. Davis, and three towards Wall's Cut, under Capt. John Rodgers. A military force followed each little fleet; one under General Wright, the other under General Vide. General Sherman himself, with Ms stair, also was present at the reeonnoissanoe, on the left side of the Savannah. The boats under Capt. Davis proceeded to within two or throe miles of the Savannah, when their progress was effectually obstruoted by sunken piles placed in the channel ; at the same time, Capt. Rodgers, with the ships under his command, ad other side ; he wan within a mile in a direct line vanced as far as it was thought advisable, on ac count of the shallowness of the water, on the from the Savannah. Both banks of this river are so low, and the vegetation on them is so inconsider able, that the two fleets, though separated by the Savannah and its shores, were within sight of each other ; indeed, the streams here are almost like ca nals, and the lands are covered with nothing but marsh and reeds. Between these two divisions of the reconnoitring party, came down from the oily of Savannah a little rebel fleet of fire gunboats under Commodore Tatnall ; each gunboat convoyed a lighter, laden with provisions or water for Port Pu laski, whose communications were by this move- ment of the Union force so seriously threatened. Nothing but the entrance of either party of gun boats into the river was required to complete the investment of the fortress. A deserter subsequently stated that the supply of water in the fort was very low. • Tatnall opened fire at t ipeco on the morning of the' 28th, upon Davis's .fleet, in Wilmington creek, and seas immediately answered by a rigorous cannonad ing. Rodgers, also, from his position on the left, began to annoy the rebel commodore, but the boats in Wall's Cut t and its vicinity ? were apparently too far off to be able to do much damage. Those under Davis seemed to be more successful•; several of their shots were seen to take effect; one or two shells burst upon the deok of Tatnall's flag-ship, d r iving the gunners from their guns, and two of the mussy:tit* fleet,yrere obliged to return to Savannah, one apparently very much disabled. The other three, however, succeeded in getting through the double fire that saluted them, and reaching Fort Pulaski. They left their lighters, and started back before a change in the tide. The firing began again on them both from Rodgers and Davis, and the rebels replied vigorously; but on their return passage no,harm seemed to be received by either party. No damage whatever was done during the day to any Federal vessel. The three rebel steamers, however, Succeeded in getting back to Savannah. During the action, the two Union fleets were able to signal to each other across the Savannah river, and over the vessels of the enemy, an occurrence unprecedented in naval warfare, and which reflects- infinite credit on the signal system by which it was achieved. The whole engagement was a peculiar one. The rebel gunboats in one river were running the gauntlet of a fire on either side, and each of those fires proceeded from vessels in a different river. The flatness of the country allowed one to overlook ell three loots at once, while Pulaski at one extremity of the picture, and Savannah at the other, were plainly visible. The firing each time lasted about an hour and a half. L I shall probably be able to send you by this mail a copy of an extremely important order about to be Waled by General Sherman- Its provide= will un doubtedly excite comment and criticism ; butbeforo unfavorable criticism is paaaed upon them, a com plete apprehension of some of the circumstances in this command should be obtained. Such an appre hension, it seems to me, must obviate anything like censorable remark, and, indeed, provoke uequali fled approbation. After making the kindest of fers of protection to the citizens of South Carolina, in case they returned to their allegiance, or even remained quietly in their homes, and receiving, ex empt in the rarest instances, no reply but abuse) to such offers, General Sherman conceives himself re leased from any obligation to protect those citizens in the possession of their property of any descrip tion. He is, however, placed in a position unlike that of any commander in the Federal armies. Within the region occupied by his troops, there are now thousands of ignorant blacks aban doned by their disloyal masters, and likely to be acme a [charge upon the Government, who have already become a serious burden upon the atten tion and consideration of the commanding general. These blacks cannot be ignored; humanity de mands that they shall be fed and clothed; Judiee demands that they should not be sent bank to their maatera, even if that were possible ; they are con stantly increasing in numbers, and Gea. Sherman has received no orders from the Government in re lation to them, other than the original instructions of 4r. Cameron, with which the country is familiar. Under these circumstances, the most absolute con servative would be forced to act, and Gen. Sher man, than whom I - believe no man in the country is more honestly anxious to do his duty to the whole country, even to the rebellious States, where his troops are situated, has devised a plan what work= ings are now to be tested. Ne.will divide the sows try, occupied by his commanCiato sections, over each of which a superintendent will be appointed, and ever the whole two general superintendents, one to oversee the educational interests of the blacks, and the other to direct their labors. In a word, the negroea are to be set to work, to'be elothed and fed and paid for their work, to be oared for and in structed in their duty towards God and man, and their condition, so far as practicable, to be amelio rated. Those who have seen the stolidity and ignorance that, pcevail among them will be eon laced of the groat mooooky for such amelioration, as well as the utter impossibility for them of such a thing as self-government or self-maintenance. Misery of a frightful sort, and very possibly anarchy, would follow itthey were left to them selves, their wants unoared for, and their situation unconsidered. By the system which General Sherman has adopted until he receives contrary orders from higher authority, no emancipation is declared, no arming of fugitives is contemplated, and at the same time a more serious blow will pro bably he dealt to slavery than if the moat radical schemes of the ultra Abolitionists were attempted. However, for such consequences those only are an swerable who have provoked this rebellion. But if this plan succeeds, if the nogroes can be decently cared for, made comfortable, and above all instruct ed, the rebels may well be frigntmed for more than at any fanatical proclamation on the Potomac, or the Mississippi, or the approach of any barbarous servile army. Educating the slaves is a surer way of attacking the peculiar institution than inciting them to insurrection, and at the same time it avoids the horrors sure to follow putting arms into the hands of those who would be worse than savages. Perhaps the wholesome dread this action may in spire will do more to hying back to their allegiance some in the disloyal States, even than the miseries they have already endured ; while the humane so lution of the great problem that. it contemplates cannot but provoke the sympathies and approba tion of impartial- Europeans. At any rate, a oriels has arrived here that renders some step imperative, and to my_mind it would .be difficult to conceive one more patriotic, politic, and just to all con cerned. VAGABOND. Fan. 7.- 7 Since I closed my letter a strong de tachment of troops has been sent to North Edisto, where the country hat beep deserted' since the ap pearance of our gunboats in December. An aban doned fort is there, under whose walls 200 negroes have been colonized. This is the farthest advanee our troops have yet made in the direction of Charles ton. Edisto is not 15 miles in a direct line from Sumpter. The Cah,atekt, arrived to-day, bringing a com pany and a half of the First Masmohusatts Cavalry from Annapolis. The First Connecticut Light Artillery arrived a day or two ago. V. List of Deaths in General Sherman's Com mand, Between January let and Febru ary 7th, 1862_ THIRD NEW EILIIPE4IIIII. Robert F. Palmer, private Co. E, Jan. 4, Con geative fever. T. P. Hosman, private Co. A, Jan. 6, pneumo nia. L. D. Hammond, private Co: I, Jan. 29, conges tive fever. • rort7T-EIGHTS XiLir TVEVK. Thomas Dougherty, private Co. K, Jan. 30, found dead in tent. Joshua A. Richardson, private Co. A, Jan. 4, ty phoid fever. Jacob Taylor, private Co. B, Jan. 6, cholera morbus. John Allen, corporal Co. H, Jan. 11, cholera litor bus. Amos L. Moore, private Co. C, Jan. 11, imehy losis. Wm. H. Lunt, private Co. I, Jan. 22, diptheria. ROUNDHEAD PENNSYLTANIA Henry Kennedy, private Co. F, lan. 8, perito nitis. Joseph Allison, private Co. GI-, larynxitis. Robert Boyd Elder, private Co. D, Feb. 3, remit= tent fever. SEVENTY-NINTH NEW TORS. Archibald Bell, corporal Co. B, Jan. 29, typhoid foyer. EIGHTH REGIMENT Ira Armstrong, private Co. If, Jai. 4, gunshot wound. - Jain J. Adams, oarporal Co. A, JaII. 1, gambol would. Thos. Kipp, private Co. A, Jan. 6, typhoidfever. Thos. Heather, private Co. A, Jan. 10, apoplexy. Amoa Smith, private Co. K, Jan. 11, dysentery. Peter Shiok, private Co. B, Jan. 13, variols. Dennis Wood, private Co. K, Jan. 19, typhoid fever. Wm. Zelly, private Co. 11, Jan. 22 ; pneumonia SIXTH CONNECTICUT Seth P. Barnes, private Co. E,, Jan. 1, congestive fever. Thos. E. Tracy, private Co. G, Jan. 30, conges tive fever. SEVENTH 'CONNECTICUT Wm. H. Brown, corporal Co. I, Jan. 14, typhoid fever. Win. Duncan, private, Jan..lB, typhoid fever. FOURTH NEW HAM FSHIRN, Robert L. Holbrook, private Co. A, Jan. 15, con gestive fever. Sam'l Beard, private Co. A, Jan. 24, larynxide. Jas, Brown, Kivate Co. A, Jan. 26. typhus fever. Jas. Jones, private Co. D, Feb. 1, laryngitis. Geo. E. Hartford, private Co. A, Feb. 2, conges tive fever. Geo. IL bleCondire, private Co, H, Feb. 7, con gestive fever. ELIO& Diable, corporal Co. F, Jan. 15, typhoid fever. Geo. Roberts, private Co. E, Jan. 18, typhoid fever. Allred Huntress, private Co. E, Jan. 21, diarrhoea. Melvin F. Walk, private Co. F, Jan. 24, conger• five fever. Edw. Boothby, private Co. E, Feb. 2, typhoid fever. . John C. Fellows, private Co. K, Feb. 6. Levi M. Ilambleton, private Co. C, Jan. 4, con gestive fever. Geo. 4t. Squire, private Co. Q, Jan. 5, conges tive fever. Antoine Klohe, private Co. B, Jan. 13', conges tive fever. Thoa. B. Wolfe, private Co. K, Jan. 17, pnen• monia. Jacob Miner, private Co. A, Jan. 20, congestive fever. George Gunn, captain Co. A, Jan. 21, Bajada. Charles Green, private Co. C, Feb. 2, conges tive fever. THIRD RHODE ISLAND Alfred B. Ketchum, private Co. K, Jan. 10, rn• biola. Edwin It. M. Horton, private Co. A, Jan. 17, typhoid lever. John S. Bullock, private Co. A, Jan. 18, typhoid fever. FORTY-FIFTH PENNSYLYANIA. John W. Milner, private Cu. P, Jan. 5, typhoid Met. Eli Harbough, private Co. K, Jan. 27, Taxi*la. Joseph Fennel, private Co. .11, Jan. 2, phthisis Henry Stevens, private Co. F, Jan. 7, conges tive fever. E. 11. Masem, private Co. F, Jan. 25, variola. GENERAL ORDERS—No. 9 HEADQUARTERS, E. C., 1 LLTQN HEAD, 5, Q. lebruiry 0, am, The helpless condition of the blacks inhabiting the vast area in the occupation of the forces of this command calls for immediate action on the part of a highly-favored and philanthropic people. The occupation of a large portion of this area of country, on the 7th of November last, led to an ad dress to the people of South Carolina, briefly setting forth the causes which led to it; its objects and purposes; and inviting all persons to the reoccu pation, in a loyal spirit, of their lima' and tene ments, and to a continuance of their-tavocations, under the auspices of their legitimate Government, and the protection of the Constitution oCthe United States. The conciliatory and beneficent purposes of that proclamation, except in a few instances, have not only been disregarded, but hordes of totally un educated, ignorant, and improvident blade have been abandoned by their constitutional guardians, not only to all the future chances of anarchy and of starvation, but in such a state of abject ignoranoe and mental stolidity as to preclude all possibility of self-government and self-maintenance m their pre sent condition. Adequate provision for the pressing necessities of this unfortunate and now interesting elm Q( people being therefore imperatively demanded, even by the dictates of humanity alone, an addi tional duty, next only in importance to that of the preservation of a world-revered Constitution and Union, is now forced upon us by an unnatural and wicked rebellion. To relieve the Government of a burden that may hereafter become insupportable, cad to unable We blacks to support and govern themselves in the absence and abandonment of their disloyal guar dians, a suitable system of culture and instruction must be combined with one providing for their physical wants. Therefore, until proper legislatiOn on the subject, or until orders from higher authority, the country in occupation of the forces of this command will be divided off into districts of convenient size for proper superintendence. For each of these districts a suitable agent will be appointed to superintend the management of the plantations by the blacks, to enroll and organise the willing blacks into work ing parties, to see that they are well fed, clad and paid a proper remuneration for their labor, to take charge of all property on the plantations, whether found there, provided by the Government, or raised from the soil, and to perform all other administrative duties connected with the planta tions, that may be required by the Government. A code of regulations on this subject, as well as a proper division of districts, will be furnished in due time. In the meanwhile, and until the black, become capable of themselves of thinking and acting cloudy, the services of competent instructors will be received—one or more for each distriot—whose duties will consist in teaching them, both young and old, the rudiments of civilisation and Chris tianity; their amenability to the laws of both Qod and man; their relations to each other as social beings, and all that is necessary to render them competent to sustain themselves in social and busi ness parsulta. For an efficient and complete organization of this system, there will be appointed two general agents, one to have a general superintendentie over the ad ministrative or agricultural agents, and the other over the educational department. 2. The above system is not intended, in any respect, to interfere with the existing orders re specting the employment of contrabands by the staff department of the army, and by the ootton agents. 3. As the blacks are now in great need of suita ble clothing, if not other necessaries of life, which neoeesity will probably continue, and even in crease, until the aboire system gets into working order, the benevolent and philanthropic , of the land are most earnestly appealed to for assistance in re lieving their immediate wants. Never was there a nobler or more fitting opportunity for the ope ration of that considerate and praotieal, bensteg. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1862. lence for which. the Northern people have ever been distinguished. By order of Brigadier General T. W. Gasaaram. THE BATTLE AT ROANOKE. A Graphic Description of the Affair— The Bravery of Our Land and Naval Forces. [Correspondence of the N. Y. CommeretatAdvertiser.l ON BOARD TOR 8. R. BPAULDINO, CHUAT4I/1 SOUND, N. C., Veb 1. rBOCEBDING TO THE BOMBARDMENT All our preparations having been mado by ten o'clock, the gunboats, under the lead of the flag officer's • shin, moved forward, and; were soon inside the narrow passage leading into Croatan Sound, known as Roanoke Inlet. The mainland juts eastward, forming a point of marshy land at the southern extremity of Croatan Sound, which forms the only navigable water leading past Roanoke Island. A small marsh, Island forms the eastern boundary of the channel, while the western shore is a low, marshy point. One of our gunboats grounded in passing through, but was soon got off. Following Commodore Goldsborough's squadron wore the gunboats of the coast division, all of which passed through with out interruption. The S. R. Spaulding, with General Burnside on board, next passed through, but the remainder of the transports were detained about two hours. The rebel gunboats could now be seen close in shore, evi dently under the guns of batteries on shore. As our fleet passed into the sound a signal was fired from one of the rebel gunboats to announce our approach. This was about balf•past ten o'clock. At half-past eleven the first gun from our vessels was fired from the flag ship, and was replied to by the rebels. The fl ag officer hoisted the signal—" This day our country expects Clint every man will do his duty.” ' The effect of tots on the shell-backs" was electric. They worked their guns with unflagging energy, determined - that their country should have nothing to complain of, in -relation to them. As our vessels came within - Shorter range the lire became wore rapid, but the regular fire did not commence until noon, when the fag-ship displayed the olopu4 ter clots action. CONMENCENISNT OF THE ACTION The number of the rebel gunboats visible in the early part of the engagement was seven, hut,ms our vessels came into closer action they moved to the northward, with the design of drawing oar fleet after them. so as to bring them under the guns of their batteries on the island. At twelve o'clock the engagement became gene ral between the retreating gunboats of the rebels and our fleet, with an occasional shot from a battery on shore. The firing wiurexceedingly brisk for some time, but this distance was evidently too long for destructive effect. The 100-pound Parrott gun on boar! the Souafiekl, to which the flag-officer transferred his flag, boomed forth with ieFrifie opeirleidone i followed by the roar of the Hying shell and the crash in bursting. The puff of smoke in the air was almost simultaneous with the splash of fragment/1 in the water. The rebel gunboats kept up a steady fire in reply, and their shots could be seen skipping along the water among our vessels. The fire from the fort indicated a weak force working the guns. Their shots, which were inaccurate and chiefly ricochet, were fired at considerable intervals. The guns of the fort are erident,y heavy, but not rifled. The rebel gunboats retire'Oteadily before our fleet and are now a considerable - distance up the sound. A line of piles driven into the bottom across the principal channel ob etructe the pregress of our vessels in the direction of the retreating rebels, which occupy an inner channel under the grins of their battery, and our fleet now turn their attention to the fort, which keep!, up a steady and rapid fire from one gun only. Our vessels have got the range of the battery, but some vbelle explode high in the .air and over the woods in the rear of the work. The bombardment is steadily kept up by our vessels, and is replied to feebT, by the battery. Our missiles seem, from en board the transports, to be welldirected ; the sand and water dose to the battery are constantly thrown up fifty feet into the air. Signals having beef, made to the transport fleet to make all possible haste, they are DOW rapidly approaching, and preparations ars being made to land. General Burmide makes the remark, "That battery is about silenced ; I will take these troops and land," but the battery opens afresh, and sends seve ral well directed shot in among our gunboats. & shot from our fleet has just cearried away the flag-staff of the battery, and an officer (afterward ascertained to be Major liillj plants a regimental Confederate flag on the work, and the firieg is continued. THE ENEMY'S QUiRTERS ON FIRE At one o'clock a denim column of smoke is seen to arise from the battery, and the quarters of the garrison are evidently on fire. A. shell from the Picket, which has just come into action, burst among the corn husks and dry materials in the barracks, and set tire to the tempo rary board quarters of the soldiers. In a few minutes a lurid flame burets from the thick black smoke, and leaps upward. The entire work seems to be enveloped in the smoke of the burning buildings, but the white smoke of their cannon springs out yet. Their lire, however, is eleekeacd, and the fire from our vessels is also slackened, evidently supposing the resisting powers of the battery to be nearly exhausted. The flames from the quarters are partially subdued, and the fire of rite battery is re commenced, our gunboats replying with increased vigor. The lire from our vessels for half an hour is exceedingly lively, and the flames seem to gain on the garrison, who keep up their fire from one gun with unabated energy. Tho entire quarters are' now apparently enveloped in smoke and name, Dut the gun from the battery. booms forth at intervals, steadily maintaining the fight, and sending its ; shot ricochetting along the water, but their aim is bad. Scarcely any of their shot strike our TOBNOLI. All acknowledge the resistance of the rebels to be most determined. The slackening of our fire when theirs slackened was an acknowledgment of the bravery of the garrison, for during the whole bombardment all supposed our fire to be terribly destructive, and a desire to pre vent further bloodshed prevailed throughout the fight. The games within the enemy's work having again been partially subdued, their fire recommences with some_ briskness, but with very little effect on our gunboats. Our vessels have gained a nearer range, and every few minutes shot and shell rain on the battery and are seen to strike in and about it with great precision. A movement among the rebel gunboats, apparently to flank our fleet and attack the transports, is prevented by Flag Offleer Coldohorough, who scads th ree or four gun boats eut in the direction of the mainland, on seeing which the rebels abandon the attempt, and retire farther up the sound. The flames from the barracks are again eitending, and have broken out in other places. Thej continue their fire, but with less vigor. Twenty minutes elapse between the discharges from the battery. The time of each die- Charge ie carefully noted by the epectatore, in exPeol6• Lion that it will prove to be the last shot from the bat tery. Half hours now elapse between the discharges, and it is expected that the work is about boing aban doned. REBEL GUNBOATS SCATTERED The rebel gunboats which retired up the sound again appear near Wier's( Point, coming down to engage our vessels. This was evidently intended to draw our atten tion from the landing of reinforcements on the east side of the point. ' A brisk contest ensued between the rebel vessels and three or four of our boats, which resulted in —one of the rebels hauling off toward the mainland, and sunning ashore, where she was soon seen enveloped in flames. This vessel was said to be the Curlew, and is supposed to have been the flag-ship of Commodore Lynch, the rebel commander. She was struck by a hundred- pound shell from the Parrott gun on the Southfut Id, which exploded on her deck. The contest between our gunboabfand the rebel halts ry is still continued, but is kept up by the battery at long intervals. The white puffs of smoke from our vessels are frequent, and the roar of our guns and hum of the pro jectiles fill the air with terrible sounds constantly. Our vessels are frequently enveloped in smoke so Impenetrable as to obscure them entirely. In order to cover the landing of the troops, at three in the afternoon, three et our gunboats took positions along the there, to the i igh di' the battery, in order to shell the woods, and th hells are now bursting high iii the air, and dropping a shower of fragments among the trees every few minutes. Two boats have taken positions close to the landing point, to more effectually cover the landing of our men. Seeing a portion of our gunboat fleet drawn off in another direction, six of the rebel °rat appear under the shore at a quarter past four o'clock, and another conflict is opened. A small Big, In whicla Burnside is making the circuit of the fleet, pause within easy range of the rebel vessels, and a shell from one of their guns explodes over them, showering the water about with the fragments, one el which came on board the tug. No person was injured, however. • For half an hour this fight continued, and was maintained on both sides with gum spirit, alter which the rebels put off up the sound and dicasbeartd. The fire from the battery was continued until our vessels hauled off for the night, about six o'clock, the last shot being fired by the battery. All became quiet in a very short time, and the only light that oould be dis cerned on shore was the ruddy slew of the smouldering fire of the burnt quarters of the rebels. About one thou sand-five hundred missiles of various kinds were thrown into the rebel battery by our voiatle, and nearly two thoacand were thrown throughout the bombardment. The bravery of the garrison was universally commended with that true chivalrous spirit that recognizes a noble quality even in an enemy. Such courage would certainly hold out until morning, and all were in expectation of a re newal of the conflict. Our casualties were extremely slight Five were killed and ten wounded. The bursting of a 32-pounder rifled gun on the after deck of the gunboat Hetzel, which shat tered the gun-carriage, destroyed a portion of the bul warks, cutting through the deck into the upper part of the hull, wounded- five men, one only seriously. The master's mate of the gunboat J. N. Seymour WM killed by a shell that took off tho upper part of the skull. BRAVERY ()Ai' THE NAVAL FORCE The conduct of the officers and nen of the naval squadron is highly commendable. The spirit with which the engagement was commenced and kept up is an Indi cation of the courage of the officers of our navy. Soma of the veeselswere in critical positions at different periods dnring the tight, owing to the dangerous character of the water. The gunboats of the coast division, under tho direction of Commander Hazard, U. S. X., did excellent service. The Vidette was prominently engaged during the day, and received a allot irk her quarter. which did little damage. The plan of attack vaned from the original plan, which was arranged in expectation of batteries just at the inlet, which is but two hundred feet wide, and se difficult that great _care le necessary In navigating it. Had such batteries existed, the resistance to be over come by us would have been vastly increased. The ab sence of these batteries changed the plan of attack from three columns to two. The foresight of Commodore Goldsborough kept our fleet out of a trap, which, if it should have entered, would have annihilated it. W. 49 otrsotiTcniture Pr Par Are weft eiblequently proved by the fact that every Teasel of the rebel fleet was struck in the engagement. About four o'clock all our transports had passed through the inlet, and were anchored beyond the range of the guns of the battery. Their decks, spare, and rigging were crowded by the meddlers, eagerly watching the progress of the struggle between our vessels and the battery, and cheers were given whenever a well-directed shot wee observed to strike. They clung to the rigging like bees to a hive, in clusters as closes, they could cling. Their dark' Agoras were clearly defined on the western sky, lighted by the afternoon sun. The water was per fectly still, reflecting the ships and their loaded spare, adding greatly to the striking appearance of the scene. THE. NAVAL FORCE ENGAGED.' The gunboats of the naval squadron, under command of TM& °Moor Uoldshorough, with their armaments, era fellows Bouthfleld (Sag ship)—Armament, 3 9-Inch shell gins; 1 100-pounder rifted gun. Delaware-1 . 9-inch shell gun. Stars and Stripes-4 4-inch shell guns ; 120-pounder Parrott gun, and 2 Dahlgren boat howitzers. Louisiana-2 heavy 32-pounders and 28-inch shell guns. llhiurilliur7' Commodore Perry-2 0-inch shell guns. Underwriter-1 8-inch gun and 1 80-pounder rifled gun. , Valle'y City-4 32-pounders and 1 rifled howitaer. Commodore Barney-2 9-inch shell grins. Hunchback-2 9-inch shell gams and 1 100-pounder rifled gun. . , . Ocrer—i. 82-pounder and 'I 61-ponnder 'Parrots gun. Putnam-1 30-pounder rifled gun and 1 light lA pounder. Norse-2 9-inch xhpll guns. Lockwood-180-pounder rifled gun and 2 24-pounder howitzer. J. N. Seymour-2 30• pounder Parrott guns. sloop Granite-1 32-pounder. izriniter—i. 04-pounder rifted gun. "Whitehead-1 9•inch shell gun. Shawebeen-2 20:rounder Parrott guns. Ihe gunboats of the coast division engaged, under the direction of Commander Hazazd, U. S. N., are Picket, 4 guns ; Pioneer, 4 guns ; Hussar, 4 guns; Vl dette, 3 guns ; Banger, 4 guns ; Chaeseur, 4 guns. THE LANDING. At four o'clock in the afternoon all our transport ships were within the inlet and clustered in rear of the bom barding fleet, at a safe distance. Their boats are being lowered: and got ready with crew and coxswain, to pull ashore or be towed by a steamer. The stmrnwheeler Ca det. with the Fifty-first New York volunteers crowded on her decks, approached the shore /criminally. The Pa tunent, with the Twenty-trot Blaisaoleveetta on board and boats at her stem, next Nosed. The Pilot, Boy, loaded on every available pot With he Massachusetts, and towing a string of twenty boats, also full to their ganwalee, passed along with Lieutenant Andrews on boar I to pilot her into the water he had sounded. The:greater number or our vessel. are pre paring to disembark their troops Into small boats. About bur thousand men are now on their way in steamers and small boats to the point of landing. At five o'clock the first body of troops was landed from the Pilot Boy and her small boats, consisting of the 25th regiment of Massachusetts volunteers. The landing of the troops was unobstructed for a good reason. A body of rebels were discovered by the glare of their bayonets over the underbrush, and a shrapnel Omit from the Delaivare and Picket soon lent them scampering into the woods. The landing of our troops was in itself a brilliant operation. As the steamers swept down to the shore, where the water is bold, they detached the lines of the boats, each email boat casting off the painter of the one following. the rowers pulled into a small Inlet and each boat emptied itself on . the shore without delay. In lees than an hour about four thousand men wore landed, and before eleven o'clock the entire force, eraiept the 24th Massachusetts, whose steamer, the Graeae, grounded soon after the passage of the inlet. They were put a/there on Saturday morning. The point at which our troops were landed Is a small cove known as Ashby's harbor. The order in which our men were put on shore was—First, the Twenty-fifth Massachusetts, Tenth Connecticut, Fifty-first New York, Twenty-first Massachusetts, Fourth Rhode Island, Fifth Rhode Island, and Fitty-first Pennsylvania. Six thou sand men were thus put ashore in an incredibly short time. A pause of about an hour then occurred, during which the remainder of the division wore being prepared for debarkation. Before eleven o'clock the bivouac fires of our regiments lighted up the shore and the woods the distance of a mile. A slight advance was made by the TwentyHret Massa chusetts erten after landing. They proceeded along • road leading diagonally across the island, and when about a quarter of a mile from the shore, they fell in with a party of the pickets of the enemy. THE BECVD DAY— BOANOICH ISLAND, February B This morning at nine o'clock, a few shots wore ex changed between our gunboats and the battery. This, how ever, ceased after about fifteen minutes tiring, and was not renewed during the day. The rebel gunboats were not seen after the fight of the 7th, haying gone up the sound in the night. This morning a small steamer was seen rowing a fleet of five schooners across the sound in this direction 01 the eest side of the jsingd, They were Un interrupted by our boats, as we were engaged in re moving the piles and sunken schooners obstructing the ohannel. THE DECISIVE CONFLICT. A brilliant but bloody fight of two• hours' duration has put us in possession of Roanoke Island, with the forts on the mainland destroyed and abandoned by the enemy. From definite information received by General lurnaide, the position of all the works on the island was clearly known, and his movements were based upon this knowltdgm The plan of attack ransistad of a eklitPfti at tacking column, led by Brigadier General Foster i a left flanking column, to attack the right of the enemy's work, under Brigadier General 'Reno, and a right flank column to attack the left of the enemy's position, under the com mand of Brigadier General Parke. The approach to the enemy's position was through a swampy wood, with a dense undergrowth, rendering it almost impenetrable. An ordinary cart roadjeading through this wood from the shore to the field work, a distance of about n mile, was the only mode of communi cation. The woods, in front of the battery, bad been cut down a distance of three hundred yards, forming an open space to be played on by the rebel guns, about two hun dred feet wide. The woods, immediately in rear of the work, were also cut down to permit the manoeuvring of their own forces. Theirbeitery consisted of an earth work whit Due* facile covering the open space before, and the woods at each side of the open apace, bat with a general direction of, fire to the front. The guns were mounted in embra sire and consisted of a fine 24 pounder brass Dahigren howitzer, a long 18-pounder brass field gun, of the date of 1834, and a new 12-pounder brass field piece. In front of the work is a ditch eight feet wide and about three feet deep, and filled with water. This earth work is about thirty.tive yards wide, and is erected across the road by which our men mist advance. The ground in front of the work is a deep marsh on which the trees which were felled still lay. The difficult nature of this ground was increased by the pita from which the turf and earth for the field work had been taken. Branches were strewn over the front of the work, making it difficult to discover it from the wood in front. The defending force consisted of about three hundred men, within the breastwork, and about three thousand as a re serve and deployed as skirmishers on the left of the battery. The rebels relied chiefly for the defence of their flanks on the almost - impenetrable nature of the wood on each side. Their entire force, with the exception of the force work ing the battery, was scattered in front, and in the woods on the left as skirmishers. ' . . Our army advanced from the bivouac ground of the night previous, where they had spent the night with no thing but thin overcoats to protect them from a cold driving rain. They had left their knapsacks and blankets on the transports, each man carrying nothing but his haTereacts, with three dope provisions, and his cartridge box, with forty rounds of ball cartridge. The order of advance was as follows: The centre, under the command of General Foster, was composed of the Twenty-fifth Massachusetts, Colonel Upton; Twenty-third Massachu setts, Colonel Kurta ; Twenty-seventh Massachusetts, Colonel Lee, and the Tenth Connecticut, Colonel Russell, moved forward about eight o'clock. They were followed by the second column, under General Rano, consisting of the Twenty-first Massachusetts, Lieutenant Colonel Naggi ; the Fifty-first New York (Shepard Ritlee), Col. Farrero ; • Ninth, New Jersey, Lieutenant Colonel—, and the Fifty -Brat Pennsylvania, Colonel Hartranft. The third column, led by General Pdike, was formed of the Fourth- Rhode Island, Colonel Rodman ; First battalion Fifth Rhode Island, Major Wright, and the Ninth New York, Colonel Hawkins. As the Twezity.fifth Massachusetts, at the head of the first column, advanced up the road, the Twenty-third and Twenty-seventh were thrown out on the right and left flank, to prevent a flank movement from the enemy. They soon encountervd strong bodies of the rebel skir mishers, when a sharp fire was opened. The progress of our men was marked by these encounters until they reached the open space in front of the enemy's battery, when the skirmishers were called in, and preparations for an advance in column made. The right and left attack ing ccaumeeeed themovement through the woods to gain their respective positions, tu doing which the right, snider Gen.-Parke, came under the enemy's tire. The Foul& hhode Island returned their fire with energy. A battery of six 12-pounder boat howitzer from the 'refuels of the navy headed the advancing column in the centre. The battery was commanded by Midshipman Benjamin H. Porter, of New York, detailed from the frigate ,Roanoke, assisted by Acting Master E. P. Meeker, of New Jersey, Acting Master's Mate Hammond, and Lieut. Tileon and' Hughes, of the Coast Guard. The guns were placed in position at a curve of the road, from which they commanded the enemy's battery. They opened fire, and kept It up briskly until their ammunition gave out. The battery Buffered severely in the fight, and at one time was too short- handed to be worked effective ly. At this period the brave and patriotic chaplain of the Twenty-fifth Massachusetts, Rev. Mr. James, disre garding the dangers by which those at the guns were surrounded, helped to work the guns himself, until their ammunition was exhausted. . - An advanced position was taken by the Twenty-fifth Massachusetts and maintained under a terrible fire from the enemy's battery, until the forty rounds of ball car tridge distributed to the 111011 were exhausted, when they were relieved by the Tenth Connecticut. The Connec ticut men maintained this position with the fortitude of veteran tro9Pit The movements of our flank columns of attack had not yet attracted the attention of the enemy. After their most advanced skirmishers had been driven in by our men, another party was thrown out to turn the flank of our centre column. This movement was intercepted by the Twenty-third and 27th Massachusetts regiments, and a sharp encounter between their skirmishers and three companies of the Second battalion Wise Legion, under the cenurand of Lieut. Col. Frank Anderson (ftlibustero) resulted in the repulse Of the Virginians, with the lose of Captain 4b. Jennings Wise, mortally wounded, Captain Robert Holes killed, and several officers slightly wounded. The engagemant was now at the fleiceet, the constant rattle of musketry, varied only when a volley was dis charged, was perfectly deafening. The lull in the storm was filled up by the roar of our battery and that of the enemy, which sent charge alter charge of grapeshot shrapnel among our soldiers. No sign of flinching was visible in our ranka. The wounded from the field that were borne to the rear by their comrades, in theft• arms or on litters, passed our advancing regiments with a smile, and es much of a cheer as their faintness would perMit them to give, and never without an encouraging word, if they were not too much exhausted to speak. Heroism of the true stamp, courage of the moat unqueetiourthle character, mid pa, triotiem and devotion to the cause for which they were so fiercely contending, could alone support our men under the combined agencies of the perils of their position and the depressing effect of the gloomy procession of mangled comrades passing continually. At each flash of the enemy's cannon, our men were ordered to crouch down in order to avoid the flying mis siles. The difficulty in executing inch a movement was "'err great. Our men stood in many inahmeea in water and mad to their hips, and to move in any direction re• euired A scramble over a fallen tree, with jagged and torn blenches to annoy and impede. The bodies of the dead aid wounded, when they first fell, were in most in stancel covered with water, especially when they fell into the pit! with which the field is cut up. The tolumn under Gen. Parke, sent to attack the left of the ;battery, had passed the central column, when a charge\by the hinth New York (Hawkins' Zeuaves) was ordered. Major Kimball at once beaded the storm ing patty, milling to hit mon to follow hlm and• they would win the battery. The boys dashed off with the accustomed cheer, and at the double-quick, the Major irswariably keeping considerably iu advance. In the commencement of the - charge they were met by a hot fire from tie battery and the muskets in the rear. , DEATH OF LIEUT. 001, MONTEIL. • It win at this time that Lieut. Col. Vigier de Houten, of the _nd New York, distingu ished himself. He fearlessly eicyoso himself to the enemy 's fire, thinking only of en efouraeipo the men, and cantrlbutin# to the euccistwief the charge. He deliberately loaded and fired'a rifle he car ried, *lug a steady aim before firing. He spoke to the 'oldie in the most cheering tones of encouragement, and when last he was struck in the head by a musket-bul i let, he anklo the earth without a struggle. A braver man could not be found. A more ardent defender of the cause if liberty need not be asked. He leaves a wife in New "Ark, whole protection should be made a tamalel object by the country. he e i 2. °naves neared the battery, General Reno's colum i beaded by the Twenty-first Massachusetts and the F ty-first New York, appeared in the woods ad vancitg on the enemy's right. Their bullets were al ready !dropping the men inside the battery. The rebels soon Pausd their great reliance on the impenetrability of the wade to the left was a mistake, and without waiting for tht near approach of one men they abandoned the work in the most precipitate manner, leaving a wounded captain inside the work. They cast off knapsacks, haversacks, and overcoats, and whatever else tended to retard their flight. Three companies of the Fifty-first New York o,ieutenant Colonel Porter) were the first to venter the battery, where they planted the stars and stripes: Tliy were seen toilet, ed by the Twenty-first Masliehuselts, when Lieutenant Colonel Maggi planted the while lh of Massacrinsette on the work. Hawkins' i Zoumes n e t 'came dashing over the ditch and up the aide to fin the work in possession of their friends. It was but a nation of distance who should arrive first, for undon edly the Zonaves would have stormed'the battery at the point of the bayonet, had the work not been evacu ted. . . General ?arks, with the right column, soon appeared., but the tutu, had retired. The ZOlllllOBl who were in hie column; having the left, were nearest the front of the battery, ail were consequently ordered to charge. The bodies of five rebels were found inside the battery, and the cdrcass of a mule. The gun caissons of onoof the field pieces In the battery were riddled by the ballets from our rides. Lieutemint Close,of the Tenth Connecticut, was sent forward to recomntre, and reported to General Poster, who ordered a charge, which Colonel Russell headed amidst storm of allot from the battery. Colon Russell was killed while charging in front of hie col n, but no external wound was observed on his body. Monet Russell was esteemed very highly by all who knew him. He leaves a wile and family in New Haven td mourn the lone of an affectionate husband and fattier, wile his country has lost a brave man, a true patriot. end an honorable gentleman. The 'Plenty-Mot Massachusetts, the Fifty-first New York, aid the Ninth New York, proceeded along the line of retreat of the rebel. in pursuit. The path was marked Ib the clothes and outlaw material of which the rebels divested themselves in their flight. The Nifty-first New York and the Ninth New York pursued the road leading' le the east side of the island, where they sup plieed the rebels would endeavor to embark for Nate Read. Oft reaching the shore several boats were seen being towed away by a steamer, while two were just put ting off.fmm shore. Our men commanded them to re turn, but as they did not obey they fired on the rebels. This had the desired effect, the boats immediately put about, and the men came ashore. The boats contained twenty-live or thirty **more, among them ;leveret wounded men. One of the wounded was Capt. 0. Jen nings Wise, of the Wise Legion, who was struck twice on the field, once while being borne from the field, and again when our men fired on thelefteating boats. Capt. Wise died the same night. The Twenty-flret Massachusetts advanced' in the di rection . of a large temp of the rehele, 'which they were told by a negro woman was situated to the northward of thabattery, A company was emitforwartio skirmish: ins, order, who came on n few companies of the rebel Imo. The rebels tired, without effect, when ear melt - returned the fire, killing three and wounding five. The rebels retired, and our men steadily advanced. .They were soon met by a rebel of fi cer bearing a white flag, asking to see the officer in command. Au officer was sent to bring him to Gen_ Rena, who was advancing with the other regiments. The officer was one of the Thirty first North Carolina Regiment, who came to make terms. The only terms granted wore an unconditional surrender. The Second brigade, with Gen. Reno at the head, marched into the camp of the Thirty-first North Caro lina, when the officers delivered up their swords, andlthe men threw down their loaded muskets. Half an hour after the battery was taken. Gen. Foster moved forward with the first brigade, at the heed of which the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts marched, as they were fresh, having been landed just as the Zouaves charged the battery. It was expected the rebels had re tired to another battery where a stand would be made. As our troops approached the second camp of the rebels they were met bfLieutenant Colonel Poole, who asked what terms of surrender would be granted. General Foster re plied their surrender must be unconditional. The officer then asked what time would be granted them to consider the terms. Cannel Fester replied, i( While eau are going back to your camp to convey the terms and re turning." Tho lieutenant colonel departed and General Foster remained fifteen minutes waiting for his return, when he ordered an advance. They bad not proceeded more than one hundred yards when Colonel Poore again met them with the answer that the terms were accepted. General Foster then marched his brigade lute the camp of the rebels, when Colonel Shaw, the ceeeteaudee of the entire post, delivered up his sword_saying, I give up my sword, and surrender to you five thousand men." He thought he had that number, but some were on the mainland, having escaped, and others were reinforce ments which he expected, but had not arrived in time to be surrendered. The forces surrendered number about three thousand men. The post includes the whole of Roanoke Island, with batteries mounting over thirty gene, and Fort Forest on the mainland, mounting eight or ten gime. Two large encampments commenced in August by the Third Georgia regiment, and completed by the rebels now our prisoners, were also surrendered. The camp is composed of wooden quarters for from four to rive thou sand men, comfortably constructed and shingled over, and in excellent copdillon. About six thousand of our soldiers encamped in thee* buildings, with the rebel prisoners, who were assigned quarters and a guard placed over them. The batteries along shore were abandoned by their garrisons as soon as the knowledge of the capture of the field work by our men reached them. They Mined the main body and were surrendered with the others. :per victory was complete. Not one circumstance transpired to detract from the success of the enterprise. We met them in their stronghold, drove them out, took them prisoners with all their arms, ammunition, stores and equipage. Our lose compared with the rebels is trifling. We have lost brave men, but they died. with the sounds of victory ringing in their ears, the highest ambition of the true soldier. Friends will mourn their lets, but the pus; is seftened by the unsetoutnege flat they died to some effect. No disastreus rout adds bitter ness to their sorrow. On the contrary, the light of a brilliant and unqualified victory forms a halo around their bloody conches, causing the hearts of mothers, wives and sisters to rejoice, though their eyes may be suffused with tears. GENERAL BUELL'S DEPARTMENT. The Battle of Logan's Cross Roads—Offi cial Report of Gen. Thomas. HBADWAIITAIM 'Lust DIVId/ON, DEFARTIUMV OF FHB OnTO, 80111111.9 MT, Ki., Januaiy 31, 1862. Captain James it. frYs 4; 4 c.p Chief of Siaff, Headquarters Deparpnefii Ohio, Loaisuille, Kentucky. Carte Ia : I have the honor to report that in carrying out the instructions of the general commending this de. pertinent, containeo in his communication of the 29th of December, I reached Logen'e Cross Roads, about ten isiles north of the entrenched camp of the enemy on the Cumberland river, on the lilting., with a portion of the Second and third brigidee, Kinney's battery of artillery, and a battalion of Woolford's Cavalry. The Fourth and Tenth Kentucky, Fourteenth Ohio, and the Eighteenth 'United States Infantry being still in the rear, detained by the almoet impassable condition of the roads, I deter mined to halt at this point to await their arrival, and to communicate with Gen. Schc,epif. The Tenth Indiana, Woolford's Cavalry, and Kinney's Battery, took position on the road leading to the enemy's camp. The Ninth Ohio and Second Minnesota (part of Colonel McCook's brigade) encamped three fourths of a mile to the right, on the Robertsport road. Strong pickets were thrown out in the direction of the enemy, beyond where the Somerset and Mill Spring road comes into the main road from my camp to Mil Spring, and a picket of cavalry sonic distance in advance of the infantry. General Schoepff visited me on my arrival, and after consultation I directed him to send to my camp Stand art's battery, the Twelfth Kentucky, and the First and Second Teneesee regiments to remain until the arrival of the regiments in the rear. Baying received information on the evening of the 17th that a large train of wagons, with its escort, were en, camped on the Boberteport and Danville road, about six miles from Col. Stedman'e camp, I 'ant an order to him to send his wagon. forward under a strong guard, and to march with his regiment (the Fourteenth Ohio) and the Tenth Kentucky, (Col. Harlan,) with one day's rations in their haversacks, to the point where the enemy were said to be encamped, and either capture or disperse them. Nothing of importance occurred from the time of my arrival until the morning of the 19th, except a picket skirmish on the 17th. The Fourth Kentucky, the bat talion..of Michigan engineers, and Wetmoreie battery, joined on the 18th. About half past flee o'clock on the morning of the 19th, the pickets from Woolford's cavalry encountered Ake enemy advancing on our camp, retired slowly, and reported their advance to Col. M. D. Man son, commanding the Second Brigade. He immediately formed his regiment—the Tenth In diana—and took a position on the road, to await the at tack, ordering the Fourth Kentucky, Colonel S. S. Fry, to support him, and then informed me in person that the enemy were advancing in force, and what disposition be bad made to resist them. I directed him to join his brigade immediately, and hold the enemy in check until I could order up the other troops, which were ordered to form immediately, and were marching to the field in ten minutes afterwards. The battalion of Michigan Engineers, and Company A, Thirty-eighth Ohio, Captain Greenwood, were ordered to remain as guard to the camp. Upon my arrival on the field soon afterwards, I found the Tenth Indiana formed in front of their encampment, apparently awaiting orders, and ordered them-forward to the support of the Fourth Kentucky, which was the only entire regiment then engaged. I then rode forward myself to see the enemy's position, so as I could determine what disposition to make of my troops as they arrived. On reaching the position held by the Fourth Kentucky, Tenth Indiana, and Woolford's caialry, at a point where the roads fork, leading to Somerset, I found the enemy advancing through a corn field, and evidently endeavoring to gain the left of the Fourth Kentucky regiment, which was maintaining its position in a most determined manner. I directed one of my aide to ride back and order up a section of artillery, and the Tennessee brigade to advance on the enemy's right, and tent owlet% for Col. McCook to advance with his two regiments (the Ninth Ohio and Second Minne sota) to the support of the Fourth Kentucky and Tenth Indiana. A section of Kinney's battery took a position on the edge of the field to the left of the Fourtir Kentucky, and opened an efficient ftre on a regiment of Alabamians, which wee advancing on the Fourth Kentucky. Soon afterwards the 2d Minnesota (Col. II P. Van Cleve), the colonel reporting to me for instruction, I di• rected him to take the peeition 'of the 4th Kentucky aad 10th Indiana, which regiments were nearly out of ammu nition. The 9th Ohio, under the immediate command of Major Kaemmerling, came into position on the right of the road at the sometime. Immediately after the regiments had gained thoir posi tions the enemy opened a most determined and galling fire which was returned by our troops in the same spirit, and for nearly half an bout the contest woe maintained en beak sides he the meat abaft/der/M.Bff. At this lima the 12th Kentucky, Co). W. A. Hoskins, and the Tennes see brigade reached the field to the left of the Minnesota regiment, and opened fire on the right flank of the enemy, who then began to fall back. The 2d Minnesota kept up a most galling fire in front, and the 9th Ohio charged the enemy on the right, with bayonets tam], turned their Hank, and drove thorn from the field, the whole line giving way, and retreating in the utmost disorder and confusion. iSs soon as the regiment could be formed and refill their cartridge boxes, I ordered: the whole force to ad vance. A few miles in the rear of the battlefield, a small force of cavalry was drawn up near the road, but a few shots from our artillery (n, section of Standart's battery) dispersed them, and none of the enemy were seen again until we arrived in front of their entrenchments; as we approached their entrenchments the division was deploy. ad in line of battle and steadily advanced to the sammit of the hill at Mouldenie. From this point I directed their entrenchments to be cannonaded, which was done until dark by Standart's and Wetmore'e batteries. Kinney's battery was placed in position on the extreme left at Russell's- house, from which point he was directed.to lire on their ferry to deter them from attempting to cross. On the following morn ing, Capt. Wetmore's battery was ordered to Russell's bouts, and asidated with his Parrott glum in firing upon the ferry. Ranson's . brigade took position on the left near Kinney's battery, and every preparation wee made to assault their entrenchments en the following morning. The Fourteenth Ohio ((Colonel. Stadium and the Tenth Kentucky (Colonel liarlan),having joined from detached service soon after the repulse of the etterny,:contlnued with their brigade in the pursuit, although they could not get up in time to join the fight. General Schoepff also joined me on the evening of the 19th with the Seven teenth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-eighth Ohio. Hie entire brigade entered with the other troops. On reaching the entrenchments we found that the enemy had abandoned everything and retired during the night. Twelve pieces of artillery, with their caissons packed with ammunition, one battery-wagon and two forges, a large amount of ammunition, a large number of small arms (meetly the old tlint-lock musket), one hun dred and fifty or misty wagons, and upwards of one thou sand horses and mules, a large amount of commlgiary stores, entrenching tools, and camp and garrison equip age, fell into our hand,. A correct list of all the cap tured property will be forwarded as soots as it can be made up and the property secured. The steam and ferry boats having been burned by the enemy in their retreat, it was foind impossible to cross the river and pursue them ; besides, their command was completely demoralized, a3d retreated hi groat haat* in all direction'', making their capturein any number. quite doubtful, if pursued. There is no doubt but what the moral effect produced by their complete dispersion will have a more decided effect in re-establishing Union senti ments than t'bough they had been captured. It affords me much pleasure to be able to testify to the uniform steadiness and good conduct of both officers at d men during the battle, and I respectfully.refer to the accompanying reports of the different commanders for the names of those officers and men whose conduct was particularly noticed by them. I regret to have to report that Col. R. L. McCook, cbmmanding the Third brigade, and his aid, Lieutenant A S. Burt, Eighteenth United States Infantry, were both severely wounded in the first advance of the Ninth Ohio Regiment, but continued on duty until the return of the brigade to camp at Logan's Cries Roads. COL O. Si YU, 7411f1h Kentuelty Regiment, was slighl• ly wounded whilst his regiment was gallantly reek:ding the advance of the enemy, during which time Gen. Zorn coffer fell from a shot from his (Col. Fry's) pistol, whiA, no doubt, contributed materially to the discomfiture of the enemy. Captain G. E. Flint, Assistant Adjutant General ; Capt Abram C. Gillum, Division Quartermaster; Lieut. Jos C. Breckinridge,A. D. C. Lunt, J. B. Jones, Assistant Adjutant Quar termaster; Mr. J. W. Scully, Quartermas ter's clerk i privates Samuel Letoher, Twenty-first Regi ment Kentucky Volunteers; Fourth Ken tucky Regiment, rendered me valuable assistance in car rying orders and conducting the troops to their different positions. Capt. Geo. S. Roper deserves great credit for hiaperso venue. and energy in forwarding commissary stores sa far as thip bill whore our forces bivouac. In addition to the duties of guarding the camp, Lieut. Col. A. H. Huston, commanding the Michigan Engineers, and Capt . Greenw ood, Company A, Thirty-eighth Regi ment Ohio volunteers, with their command, performed very efficient service, in collecting and burying the dead on both sides, and in moving the wounded to the hospi tal, near thebattle-geld. A number of fl a g' were taken on the field of battle and in the entrenchments. They will be forwarded to headquarter' as soon as collected together. The enemy's loss as far as known, it as follows: Brig. Gen. Zolllcoffer , Lieut. Bailie Peyton, and one hundred and ninety officers and non- commissioned officers and privates killed. Lieut. Col. W. B. Carter, Twentieth Tennessee, Lieut. J. W. Allen, Fifteenth Missiesippl. Lieut. Alien Monte. Sixteenth Alabama, and five officers of the medical staff, sad eighty-one non-commissioned officers and privates, taken prisoners. Lieut. J. E. Patterson, Twentieth Tennessee, and A. J. Knapp, Fifteenth Mitisissippi, and slity-slx non-com missioned officers and privates, wounded. Making one diundred and ninety-two killed, eishty-nine prisoners net wounded, and sixty-eight wounded. A total of killed, wounded, end prisoners of three hundred and torty•ntne. Cur loss woe SO fallowS: TWO CENTS. Com'd Non-Com. OM- Officers. care and Privatea Ninth Ohio liacond INinnosota.. .. ... 12 Fourth Kentucky 8 Tenth Indiana. 10 Full Kentucky Chivalry... 2 WOUNDED. Com'd Non-Com. OM- Ninth Ohio 4 Officers. germ and P rivates. Second Minnows 2 31 Fourth Kentucky... 4 48 Tenth Indiana.. • 3 72 Find Kentucky Cavalry 19 13 194 One oommissioned officer and thirty-eight men Were killed, and fourteen officers, including Litenant Bart, Eighteenth United /Rotel, Infantry, A, D. (3 and one hundred and ninety-Emu , 1168-ioinin,saioned officere and. private, wounded. A complete list of our killed and wounded, and of the prisoners, is herewith attached. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, GEO. 13. TIIOIIIAS, Brig. Gen. U. S. A., Commanding. Circular showing the force Mil& tettrehed out of the entrenchments of the enemy on the night of the 18th of January, 1862: HEADQUARTERS, BESCII GROVEI, Hy., January 18, 1862. CIRCULAR. The following will be the orders of march GENERAL ZOLLICOFFER. Fifteenth Dfiettitp,ippi in advance, Col WalthaH. Battery of fem. aims, Capt. Rutledge. Nineteenth Tpnneeeee, Col. Cummings. Twentieth Tennessee, Col. Battle. Twenty-fifth Tennessee, Capt. Stanton. GICNEBAL CARROLL. Seventeenth Tennessee, Vol. Newman. Twenty-eighth Tennessee, Col. Murray. Twenty-ninth Tennessee, Col. Powell. Two gone in rear of infantry, Capt. McClung. Sixteenth Alabama. Col. Wood, (in reserve.) Cavalry battalistut in rear. OW. Brawner on the right. Col. McOlean on the left, Independent. companies In IrOnt Of the advance regi ments. Ambulances and ammunition. Wagons in rear of the whole, and in the order of their regiment. By order of Geu. CUITTENDEN. A. L. CUNNINGHAM, A. A. Gen. Row Gen. Buell oat-generalled Johnston. The Cincinnati Commensal, of Friday, says Wt emote there oee be no harm in telling the attention of our readers to a few facts relating to the military movements; in Kentucky, showing the strategy of our generals. For some time Gen. Thomas L. Crittenden has been at the head of a strong division of Federal treepa, forming the right' wing of Gm. Buell's army. He was on the left bank of Green river, near South Carrolton, manoeuvring in front of the rebel. Gen. Buckner's division. Those who were watching the movements of the army were sur prised, the other day, to hear that he had suddenly retreated to Calhoun, on Green river. It turns out that his retreat was with a purpose. Steamers were awaiting him at Calheitn, filo Aver very hi gh, and his whole army was taken down Green river and the Ohio, and up the Tennessee, where it ef fected a junction with Gen. Grant's army. After the battle of Logan's Cross Roads, move ments were made as if with the purpose of advanc ing into East Tennemee in force. The Cumberland river was crossed at Waitsboro', and a column was pushed toward Cumberland Gap, while two bri gades were moved from General Buell's centre to ward his left. The rebels understood that East Tennessee, about which they are peculiarly sensi tive was the destination of the troops, and hastily gent large force by railroad from Bowling Green through Nashville to Knoxville. Now we hear that the army of General Thomas, instead of going to East Tennessee, has turned back to Danville, and is marching to join General -Nelson, at Glasgow, and flanking Bowling Green on our left. Instead of di , Tiding his forces by sending a heavy body of troops to East Tennessee, General Buell is concentrating them by a movement from the left to the centre. Herein the rebels have been completely out-gene railed. The troops they have sent to Knoxville they sorely need on the Cumberland. General Car ter's brigade, which has advanced toward Cumber land Gap, will probably be employed merely as a corps of observation in that direction. It would not be surprising if the advance of Gen. Buell's main body across Green river were designed to attract the attention of the enemy, while the most eltcctive of the troops are to be suddenly di rected IS Louisville, there to be transported, by boat, to take part in the movement up the Timms see and Onsiberlend riven. The army under ace. Grant is assuming gigantic proportions. Troops are being rapidly sent to him, not only from the State oampli in the northwest, but Missouri. The first thing on the programme is to take Fort Donelson. The next, Clarksville. The next, Nash ville. And, from the immense number of steam boala chartered, it seems likely that AA army will be despatched to Florence, Alabama, Great events are at hand. The Military Movements in Kentucky. The Louisville correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, writing under date of February 12, lays I sent you, on the Bth instant, the import and rubutance of the statement of a gentleman from Bowling Green, in regard to certain movements of the army at that point. Later information not only corroborates the fact that Floyd, Breekinridge, and Buckner, and their brigades, have left Bowling Green, but establishes beyond doubt that the re bels intended, at an early day, to evacuate that position, General Nell has, within a day or two past, received such information as has led him to express " his fears that the rebels will not make a stand at Bowling Green should he cross Green river." This information in effect says that the rebels have virtually abandoned their position. The force which, under Floyd, Floyd , as major general, marched into East Tennessee, was com posed of the brigades of Generals Floyd and Druck bridge and Colonel Wo - od, This foto() amounted probably to fifteen regiment, of infantry, which recruited, as is the case with moat of the Southern regiments, to about 700 men, would give the total number at 10,500 men. Cavalry and artillery forces in proportion would swell the whole to an army of 12,000 men. la East Tennessee are a few regiments, say 2,000 men. With the remnants of Crittenden's army gathered together, it is possible that Floyd can command an army of 15,000 men. It is not to be supposed that this force can sue cessfully resist the onward march of Thomas' entire division, marching, as it is, in three heavy bodies by different routes into Tennessee. Whenoe will the necessary force be drawn? Can any point but the Potomac spare them? Can the Potomac spare them? It is understood here that the fortifications at Bowling Green have no heavy guns mounted upon them. A demand having arose for all heavy guns at Columbus about the first of the new year, they were hastily shipped to that point, leaving the forts at Bowling Green in some instances entirely destitute of guns. While the works at Bowling roon arc known to bo Wong land admirably built, it is also certain that they are lacking in heavy guns. There, is nothing larger than 32-pounders mounted at owling Green, and there are but few of them. While the heavy guns have been lying idle at Columbus, the direct line of rebel commu nication and conveyance has been completely out off at Feet Henry, and it is almost a matter of Im possibility, and certainly a matter of considerable uncertainty, to re-convey them by the other routes to Bowling Green. The same informant who brings this information, and much other interesting matter in detail, asserts that there are not more than 15,- 000 men at Bowling Green, consisting of the bri gades of Gene. Harden and Hindman. He is posi tive that only the two brigadas named remain. 2U have a force of 15,000 men would require at least twenty-five regiments, and it is hardly to be sup posed that two brigades comprise that number of regiments. I think the force much smaller than the number named. Gen. Buckner, in command of two or three bri gades, is manaiuvring south of Hopkinsville, and along the line of the Memphis branoh railroad. After a long series of Strange movements---atrange on both his part and Crittenden's—the two op posing armies of Buckner and Crittenden lately came within dangerous distance of each other,and sat down to fortify and eye each other. Bud. denly both armies, as if by agreement, struck tents and departed, Buckner moving south upon Hop kinsville, and Crittenden north upon Calhoun. The movement, on Critenden's part, is comprehensible, and in some measure explains that of Buckner. Crittended itetrohed to Celiteue with hie whale foree. Calhoun is on Green river, twenty-five miles from its mouth, and where the river is at all times navigable. At the time of this movement it was navigable for the largest beats, being at flood height. On reaching Calhoun, Crittenden found a flat ready to receive his command, and the whole was hastily embarked and steamed for the Ohio. The fleet pained Henderson, Hy., at. noon on Mon day, and, in the wake of the gunboats, is now ploughing the flooded waters of the Cumberland. Buckner, understanding this programme t has fallen back, and ere this, doubtless, added his foree to that at Fort Donelson. The gunboats and Critten. den'. fleet will reach Dover and the fort about Thursday, and about that time we may hoar of the expected eonfliot at that point. You wondered in Monday's issue as towhat point in Alabama the gunboats were going. At this time of a heavy flood, why may they not go to Alabama? In ordinary stages, the Tennessee isnavigable as far as Florence, Ala. Just above Florenoe are what are known as the Muscle sholis—a shallow point, at which all ordinary navigation ceases. But why may not the gunboats pass them at this time, and reach Decatur? I know nothing to tke contrary, but cannot say that they ean•pasi. At Deeatur are two splendid railroad bridges, one of which is that of the Memphis and Charle ston Railroad—by far the most important in the South. The destruction of this work would give the rebels as muoh trouble as will the interruption of the Memphis branch. GEN. HALLECK'S DEPARTMENT. A General Order from Commodore Foote— Words of Cheer to the Officers and Crews of the Gunboats. CAnto, February 10, 1802. The officers and crew of that portion of the gun boat flotilla which were engaged in the capture of Fort Henry," on the Bth inet, , already Allytt had their brilliant services and gallant conduct favora bly noticed by the commanding general of the :Western army and by the Secretary of the Navy, conveying the assurance that the President of the United States, the Congress, and the country, ap preciate their gallant deeds, and proffer to them the prolond thank. 91 the Nan' Department Or the services rendered. In conveying these pleasing tidings that our ear vices are acknowledged by the highest authorities of the Government, you will permit me to add that in observing the good order, coolness, courage, and efficiency of officers and men in the memorable no tion between the gunboat! and the fort, that I !hall ever cherish with the liveliest interest all the offi cers and men who participated in the battle, and in the future shall with increased hope and the great est confidence depend upon all officers and men at. tached to the flotilla, in the performance of every duty, whether in the fight or the laborious work of Rill:Preparation. A. H. FOOT , Flag Officer Commanding It; 3, Forces ` on' the Wotan Water!, THE WATt PRESS. Wllll Pl3ll WM be Pent to eubeeriben by ruin (yet annum In Mum.) at. 'SAO era Melee ,6 a f. 06 gyve u u a 13.08 T INA di It k 19.00 Larger Clubs yet be ehatrd at the &Me teee, Mil 00 copies will wet 1124 ; 60 copies will eoat $6O; mai 100 eeplee 1120. For • Club or Twenty-one or ever, we will send Intro Copy to the setter-up or the Club. Sir Postmasters are requested to act me Asenbi ale Ti. WIN Pam. Kir Advertisements inserted at the usual rater. NU lines constitute a sonars. The Union sentiment in Tennessee. The Fort Henry correspondent of the Missouri Democrat says That there is a latent Union sentiment still lin gering in the hearts of the people of this section of Tennessee there can be no doubt. Our troops have been cordially received in many instances, while the great majority of the population here would readily submit to any rule which would give them peace. I have heard not a few express their grati fication at the reduction of Fort Henry, saying— " Now, that flagis down, I reckon we shall again have peace." Many of them say they voted for the Union twice, but the last time, seeing it was all of no avail, either yielded to the popular clamor and voted for secession, or kept away from the polls alto gether. The leaders of public opinion, the press, and the politicians, have so lontvillified the North, and subsequently the Union army, and so industriously Misrepresented the objects of the present war, that the most absurd beliefs are entertained by the common people in regard to us. Many of them, believing that rapine and plunder would surely ensue upon our approach, have left their homes and everything in them, and fled to the woods for safety. The most monstrous stories are firmly believed by many of them. For instance, one old lady yesterday said to an Illinois colonel who visited her, that she had but one objection to our troops—they were so cruel. Upon seeking an explanation of this, she said we burned the bodies of all dead rebels who fell into our bands,and that she had It upon excellent au thority tat Zollicoffer's remains were treated in this way. But few negroes are found in the coun try, lneet Of them Wing been Cuts Oft:upon our ap. proaoh. Those who have remained Manifest a great interest in regard to everything connected with the army and the North. The first person met by the officer of the boat landing at the fort, after its flag had been struck, was one of these contrabands. With mingled consternation and joy imprinted uptie his countenance, and with uplifted arms, he ex claimed, "Afore God, air, is Massa Lincoln ooming in that boat?" NEWS FROM THE REBEL STATES. Affairs at Richmond BALTIMORE, Feb. 15.—A passenger by the. OM Point boat says that some of the work Men at the iron works at Richmond, who came by the flag of trues from Norfolk, represented that amp loft E c k. want of work. So great was the scarcity of iron and coal that the works there were being suspended, coal being enormously high. The mon say that there are few• if any cannon left at Richmond, all having bean sent away from time to time to other points, and that very few of the defences there have any can non mounted. The Norfolk Day Book gives a sketch of a new flag adopted by the committee of Congress on the subject. It has a blue union in a red field, With stars farming & square. The Richmond Enquirer says that four hundred prisoners of war are expected to leave Richmond for Newport News, in a day or two, In exchange for an equal number of Confederates, released by the Federal Government, and who reached Norfolk on Tuesday. Late and Important from North Carolina and Tennessee. FORTRESS Mormon, reb. 15—via Baltimore.— The following extracts from the Norfolk Day Book show the progreas of the Burnside Expedition up Pamlico Sound Rumors reaohed here yesterday, by passenger's from Suffolk, that the enemy had taken possesuitei of Edenton and also of Plymouth. Later in the day it was stated that a couple of the enemy's vessels had proceeded on a reconnois sance as far as Colerain.' The Richmond Dispatch of Friday has the fel lowing Gen. Wise is near Currituek Court Rouse, and sent down a flag of truce to Roanoke Island an Thursday." [Probably to recover the body Of his son.j A Norfolk telegram says that it is believed that the mortar fleet is intended for that place. Parmtsntrea, Feb. 13.—The editor of the E.v press has received a letter from Suffolk, dated ThatOliky, *lalOh Says" that Edenton add Hertfeni have been captured. Five gunboaUi moved slow* to the wharf at Edenton, yesterday at 9 °Nilo*, and afterwards fifteen more arrived. The Mhos" raised a white flag. Between 3,000 and 4,000 troops landed at fides. ton, The population is about 2,000, and it Is dim- Cant from Suffolk about fifty miles. In the after noon, two gunboats went up the Chowan river towara ]Hinton, and several others towards Ro anoke. A gentleman, just arrived from Gatesville, says that 700 horses were landed at Edenton last night, and also that a large number had been landed at Elisabeth City. Hertford, the capital of Panted nans county, was taken by the Federate yesterday. The population is only 1,500. Captain Goodwin, of Robinson, NV, with fifty two of his men and seven of the Wise Legion, hays reached Suffolk. Rebel Account of the Bombardment of Donelsom. A Nashville telegr am of the 12th says that deo patches received from Cumberland city thin eve- ning state that one of the Federal gunboats appeared in sight of Fort Donelson, this 'morning, gum o'clock, and opened fire, but without injury. The fort returned the fire; and the gunboat withdrew. The Fedorals have landed in force, and a bates with light artillery commenced this evening. It M reported that the Federal force is 10,000 to 12,001. When the steamer left for Cumberland City dm battle was raging We have no particulars. /sTABEITILLE, February 13.—A despatch dated Tort Donelson to• day at 11 o'clock A. M., states that the firing of artillery commenced this morning be fore sunrise, and had continued unceasingly up to that time., A number of pieces are rapidly firing, but the enemy keeps at a respectable distanois sM e along the line. 2.45 P. M.—The firing has ceased, probably that the enemy may change positions. We have as I far repulsed the enemy at every point on our liae. Our loss is &Dian. The Federal gunboats retired, and we think they are severely injured. STILL LATER, The day has almost passed, and wastill holt eve own. We have repulsed the enemy and drives back their gunboats, and whipped them by land and water. He still lies around, probably to at tack na to•morrow again. Our loss is not very great, while that of the enemy must be heavy. We have had lively fight ing and heavy cannonading all around the line all day. We have repulsed the enemy everywhere. and wears satisfied that we have injured their gun boats materially.. , - , Our lines are entrenched an around. Mzurals, Feb. 12.—The latestadvicesfrom Ten nessee river report that General Pillow hes the Union force hemmed in near Fort Donelson. The river is still rising. Fort Henry is submerg ed, and has been abandoned by the Unionists. One Union gunboat returned up the Tennessee /Ira to the bridge, on yeeterday, The bridge Ii guarded by 500 Unionists. There is a large Confe derate cavalry force between them and Paris. The Union men were cheering for Lincoln. The people of Paris were preparing to leave. The latest advices from Padneah.say that boat are constantly arriving with forces from Tennessee river. Fourteen have already gone towards Fort Doneleon with troops. _Heavy tiring was hoard in that direction on Tuesday. The Confederate hms at Fort Theory was flea killed and ten wounded. Gen. Tilghman was taint prisoner. The Federal lose was one hundred. CaiGTANOOGA, Feb. 12.—Several ; , Federal gas busts hers again come down ON TWINNING RICIIMOND, Feb. 12.—Congress has passed, and the President approved, an sot authorizing the vonstruotion of the railway between Danville, Pa., and Greensboro, N. C., on the ground of its being a military necessity. SA.vitsmAn, Fob. 12.—There is oonsiderable tivity among the Federal ;Joseph; below the oity. Symptoms of Discouragement. The Richmond Dispatch declares that the news of the Roanoke and Fort Henry victories has only indurated the universal determination in the South —especially among the people in the rural districts —to fight to . the bitter end. But it confutes its statement almost in the same breath, for it says : It is said that some of the officers in the field are discouraging enlistments in their oompanies and re giments, desiring themselves a pretext to leave the servieo of their country. The 6ffibers who act so base a part never would have joined the ser vice at all if they bad not, by mistaken use of the appointing power, been seduced into the servioety tempting commissions. But ten times stronger than the influence of thee° unworthy characters is that of appeals from home. Let but this latter influence be exerted by our patriotic fathers, mothers, and young women, and the cause of the ountivy will he safe beyond contingency. Really, the indnoemeat is very great indeed which urges our farmers and yeomen to exert this influence upon their sons in camp. If the Yankees should succeed, as they now aim to do, in fastening their 4D9IMOUII debt upon the South, wren in equ al share with themselves, our country is utterly ruined. The land would literally groan under taxation, and scarcely any man could call himself solvent, for scarcely any of the leading pursuits of the country would get through the year without debt after paying taxes. Submission to the dismay would be ruin outright, and 911 T Atmore ail planters have nothing to do but fight the battle through to the bitter end. This they are more de termined upon now, if possible, than at any former period of the war. . e Parson Brownlow. Parson BrownlOw's Case may be bse*y Bata lie desired to go 'North, but - before he was ready he was taken sick. He was arrested to protect hint from violence. He is still sick at his own house, being toe unwell to be removed. When ho ra• covers be will probably be suffered to depart " ts the other aide of Jordaa," together with his family. He oan do no harm there to our came, while his premix, muloD4 yes wight, 49 10,1u7.—Ntm 4;t Asalanche.
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