14 with provisions and stores, two light boats, one MAJ.-GEN. WOOL. lacerated wound, involving deltoid muscle, left shoulder. Quite serious, although the joint is not believed to be implicated. 4. W. G. Andrews, "Hamilton Guards; " lacerated wound, implicating tarsus and metatarsus, left foot, oozing of blood. Serious. 5. Matthias Sawyer, aged 23, a native of North Carolina, "North Carolina Defenders; " contused wound of upper part of left breast and neck; expectorating blood. Not much constitutional disturbance. 6. Logan Metts, aged 18, native of North Carolina, "Lenoir Braves; " slight flesh-wound of middle third of left leg, external surface. 7. Wilson J. Forbes, aged 27, native of North Carolina, "Jonesboro' Guards; "lacerated wound about two and a half inches long and three inches deep, upper part of upper third of thigh, posterior surface. 8. Henry Hines, aged 25, native of North Carolina, "Lenoir Braves; severely lacerated wound, left side. 9. Ashley Keele, aged 25, native of North Carolina, "Hamilton Guards;" lacerated wound, left side. 10. John Mills, aged 18, native of North Carolina, "Tar River Boys; penetrating wound, produced by fragment of shell occupying posterior aspect of forearm, one and a half inches from beam process to outer side; joint perhaps implicated. 11. McGilbert Rogerson, native of North Carolina, "Roanoke Guards;" contusion right foot, considerable swelling, no fracture. 12. Francis Mooring, aged 51, native of North Carolina, "Lenoir Braves;" right half of os It is, I trust, but the beginning of results frontis, with a portion of anterior lobe of the brain carried away by a piece of shell-exten- that will soon eventuate in suppressing the sive hernia cerebri. Mortal. 13. John Moor-insurrection and confirming more strongly than ing, aged 18, native of North Carolina, "Tar River Boys;" compound (comminuted) and complicated fracture of left arm; compound fracture of left thigh. Mortal. The above-named men were placed under my care after the surrender of Fort Hatteras, on the afternoon of the 29th instant. The injuries were caused by fragments of shells during the bombardment of the fort, which not only lacerated, but in many, if not all, burned the soft parts. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, GENERAL WOOL'S ORDER. General Order No. 8. The commanding general has great satisfaction in announcing a glorious victory achieved by the combined operations of the army and navy at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina, under the command of Commodore Stringham and Maj.-Gen. Butler. The result of this gallant enterprise is the capture of seven hundred and fifteen men, including the commander, Barron, and one of the North Carolina Cabinet, one thousand stand of arms, and seventy-five kegs of powder, five stand of colors, and thirty-one pieces of cannon, including a ten-inch columbiad, a brig loaded with cotton, a sloop loaded LETTER FROM THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. NAVY DEPARTMENT, September 2, 1861. SIR: The Department congratulates you and those of your command, and also the officers and soldiers of the army who coöperated with you in the reduction of Forts Hatteras and Clark, and the capture of the forces employed in their defence. The successful result, thus far, of an expedition projected with great care, and the occupation of the positions commanding the most important inlet on the coast of North Carolina, will be attended with consequences that can scarcely be over-estimated. This brilliant achievement, accomplished without the loss of a man on your part, or injury to any one in the Federal service, has carried joy and gladness to the bosom of every friend of the Union. ever the integrity of the Union. Convey to the officers and men of the respective vessels under your command the thanks of the department for their gallant conduct, and the assurance that is thus afforded that in the great emergency that is now upon us the country may rely as of old upon the vigor, and the courage, and the enthusiasm of its brave officers and sailors. I am, respectfully, your obedient GIDEON WELLES. servant, Com. S. H. STRINGHAM. SECESSION REPORTS. MAJOR ANDREWS REPORT. ON BOARD UNITED STATES SHIP MINNESOTA, September 1, 1861. To the Adjutant-General of North Carolina: SIR: I beg leave to report that after a bombardment of three hours and twenty minutes, on August 29, 1861, I surrendered to Commodore S. H. Stringham, Flag-officer, and MajorGeneral Benjamin F. Butler, Commanding United States forces, Fort Hatteras, at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina. In making this report, I desire briefly to relate the circumstances attending the capitulation. I arrived at Fort Hatteras on the evening of the 28th of August in company with Commodore Barron, Flag-officer C. S. navy, in charge of the defences of Virginia and North Carolina, and found that during the day the enemy had men of the channel battery were ordered to attacked the forces under the command of Col- leave their guns and protect themselves as well onel William F. Martin, as well as Forts Clark as possible, the council of the commanding offiand Hatteras, under my command, and after a cers having decided that it was to be an action day of most severe and unceasing fighting, the of endurance until our reinforcements came up. colonel had succeeded in concentrating all the After a few shots had been fired, and it was forces within the walls of Fort Hatteras. Col- ascertained that we could not reach them, our onel Martin himself was utterly prostrated by guns ceased fire, and only answered the fire of the duties of the day, and after consultation the enemy occasionally, to show we had not with him, I proposed that we invite Commo-surrendered. The shower of shell in half an dore Barron, an officer of great experience, to hour became literally tremendous, as we had take the general command and direct the suc- falling into and immediately around the works ceeding operations. Commodore Barron as-not less, on an average, than ten each minute, sented, and assumed the command. I then and, the sea being smooth, the firing was reproceeded to examine our guns and munitions, markably accurate. and prepare the fort for the action of the coming morning. One officer counted twenty-eight shells as falling so as to damage us in one minute, and There were but two guns mounted on the several others counted twenty in a minute. side next to Fort Clark, both thirty-two pound-At a quarter to eleven o'clock a council of the ers, and one gun on the corner next the bar, officers was held, and it was determined to suran eight-inch shell gun. During the night I render. A white flag was raised, and the firtore away a traverse on the back face of the ing ceased at eleven o'clock. Thus for thres work, and brought another gun to bear in the hours and twenty minutes Fort Hatteras resistsame direction. The companies of my com- ed a storm of shells perhaps more terrible than mand, under Capts. Cobdon, Lamb, and Sut-ever fell upon any other works. At the time ton, having been in action all the previous day, displaying great courage and devotion, being perfectly exhausted, I placed the batteries in charge of fresh troops, as follows: Nos. two and three of the channel battery under the command of Capt. Thos. Sparrow, assisted by his Lieutenants Shaw and Thomas; Nos. four and five of the same battery were under command of Lieut.-Col. George W. Johnston, assisted by First Lieutenant Mose and Second Lieutenant George W. Daniel; No. six, facing the bar, and No. seven, facing Fort Clark, were placed in charge of Major Henry A. Gillion, assisted by Lieutenants Johnston and Grimes; No. eight, a gun mounted on naval carriage, was commanded by Lieutenant Murdaugh, of the C. S. N, assisted by Lieutenant Sharp and Midshipman Stafford. Capt. Thomas H. Sharp had command of No. one, but, owing to the wrenches not fitting the eccentric axles, was unable to bring it into action. He stayed by his gun during most of the engagement, but could not fire. Thus we had but three guns we could bring to bear, (if the enemy took up his position of the previous day,) viz., Nos. six, seven, and eight. At forty minutes past seven A. M., of the 29th, the enemy opened fire on us from the steam frigate Minnesota, (forty-three guns,) Wabash, (forty-three guns,) Susquehanna, (fifteen guns,) frigate Cumberland, (twenty-four guns,) steamer Pawnee, (ten guns,) and Harriet Lane, (five guns,) and a rifled battery of three guns erected in the sand hills three miles east. of Fort Clark. Thus you will see they brought seventy-three guns of the most approved kind and heaviest metal to bear on us-the shells thrown being nine-inch, ten-inch, and eleveninch Dahlgren, Paixhan, and Columbiad; while, from the position taken, we were unable to reach them with the greatest elevation. The VOL. III.-Doc. 10 the council determined to surrender, two of our guns were dismounted, four men were reported killed, and between twenty-five and thirty badly wounded. One shell had fallen into the room adjoining the magazine, and the magazine was reported on fire. It is useless to attempt a further description. The men generally behaved well. Nearly every commissioned officer, from the commodore down, was more or less wounded, and fifty or sixty of the non-commissioned officers and men, who would not report to the surgeon. Lieut. J. L. Johnston, Company E, Seventh regiment, fired the last gun at the enemy, and raised the flag of truce on the bomb-proof. The details of capitulation were arranged on the flagship Minnesota, by which we laid down our arms, and marched out prisoners of war. I desire especially to speak of the conduct of the officers and men at the naval gun, who fired frequently to try the range. Lieut. Murdaugh was badly wounded; Lieut. Sharp was knocked down by a shell, which passed through the parapet near his head, and brought the blood from his right ear and cheek in considerable quantity, killing a man at his side, at the same time knocking down and covering Col. J. A. J. Bradford with earth. Midshipman Stafford cheered on the men, behaving in a most gallant manner. After the fall of Lieut. Murdaugh, his men bore him to the commodore's boat and he escaped. I am, very truly and respectfully, yours, COMMODORE BARRON'S REPORT. I was requested by Colonel Martin and Major Andrews, commanding the post, to as sume command of the fort, to which I assented, Colonel Bradford volunteering to assist me in the duties of defence. In assuming this grave responsibility, I was not unaware that we could be shelled out of the fort; but expecting the arrival from Newbern of a regiment of North Carolina volunteers at or before midnight, (the fleet having put to sea and appearances indicating bad weather,) we designed an assault on Fort Clark, three-quarters of a mile distant from Fort Hatteras, which had been taken possession of by a party landed from the shipping; but, unfortunately, the regiment did not arrive until the following day, after the bombardment had commenced, and when the time came that I deemed evacuation or surrender unavoidable, the means of escape were not at my command. On the next day at 7.40 A. M. the fleet, consisting of the Minnesota, Wabash, Susquehanna, Cumberland, Pawnee, and Harriet Lane, (other steamers being in company,) took their position and opened fire. In addition to the batteries of the ships, the enemy had, during the night, erected a battery of rifled guns near Fort Clark, which also opened upon us. During the first hour the shells of the ships fell short, we only firing occasionally, to ascertain whether our shot would reach them, and wishing to reserve our very limited supply of ammunition till the vessels might find it necessary to come nearer in; but they, after some practice, got the exact range of their nine, ten, and eleven-inch guns, and did not find it necessary to alter their positions, while not a shot from our battery reached them, with the greatest elevation we could get. This state of things, shells bursting in and over the fort every few seconds, having continued for about three hours, the men were directed to take shelter under the parapet and traverses, and I called a council of officers, at which it was unanimously agreed that holding out longer could only result in a greater loss of life, without the ability to damage our adversaries, and, just at this time, the magazine being reported on fire, a shell having fallen through the ventilator of the "bomb-proof" into the room adjoining the principal magazine, I ordered a white flag to be shown, when the firing ceased, and the surrender was made upon the conditions of the accompanying "articles of capitulation." The personnel of this command are now "prisoners of war" on board this ship, (the Minnesota,) where every thing is done to make them as comfortable as possible under the circumstances; Flag-officer Stringham, Captain Van Brunt, and Commander Case extending to us characteristic courtesy and kindness. We are to be landed at Fort Hamilton, New York harbor. So far as ascertained, there were this day two killed, twenty-five or thirty wounded, and many others slightly wounded. | BOSTON JOURNAL'S ACCOUNT. HATTERAS INLET, August 30. When General Wool arrived at Fortress Monroe, he found that preparations had already been made for an expedition to North Carolina, the object whereof was to stop one of the many breaks which the imperfect means at the command of the blockading squadron had left in the cordon which had been drawn upon the seaward side of Secessia. Hatteras Inlet is something like eighteen miles from Cape Hatteras, and to the southward thereof. It is a narrow gap, with a very intricate channel, through the sand beach which is a sort of natu ral outwork of the coast of North Carolina, and it has been the principal rendezvous of the Confederate privateers. It is easy of access, provided always that one knows the way, and that the weather is fine. It had the advantage, too, of being easily held. With such fortifications as may be readily constructed of sand, and with a proper armament, it would seem probable that the position could be held as long as the enemy could be kept away from the mainland, because it is very rarely that the weather will permit vessels to lay within range of the point for any considerable time. Some four months since, Mr. Daniel Campbell, of Maine, master of schooner Lydia Frances, had the misfortune to be wrecked upon this coast. The necessities of war compelled the people of Hatteras Inlet to detain Mr. Campbell three months a prisoner on this desolate coast; and Mr. Campbell was occupied during these three months in watching the progress of work upon batteries which the rebels were erecting at this most important point. I think he passed his time very profitably; but of that you shall judge. Escaping at last by the clemency of the authorities of that part of the country, but against the protest of the military commanders at the inlet, Mr. Campbell made his way to Old Point Comfort, where he at once made it his business to communicate his information to Flagofficer Stringham. He said that two batteries had been erected upon the point north of the inlet, one mounting six and the other four guns. The earthworks, he said, were of sand, twentyfive feet thick at the top, turfed over, and each containing a bomb-proof, of construction similar to that of the main work, the larger capable of protecting about four hundred men; the other, say three hundred. The guns were mounted en barbette. Of the guns, Mr. Campbell professed to know but little, as he was not accustomed to such things. It appeared probable that in the smaller fort there were two long thirty-twos. As, when he left, great exertions were being made to procure a rifled gun, he deemed it best to consider, if the place was to be attacked, that at least one of those fearful instruments would be found there. He believed that three companies were stationed at the Point. Aside from the facts which I have mentioned, Mr. Campbell did not know of any thing particularly fearful. proposed to land at a point two or three miles north of the batteries, while the vessels should shell the rebels out of their fortifications, and prepare the way for the detachment to complete the work by a decisive blow. The fortunes of war, however, gave the army a less opportunity for glory than had been anticipated. Upon this information, which was duly re- | ported at head-quarters, but which had become somewhat ancient when the expedition finally sailed, General Scott ordered General Butler, in conjunction with Flag-officer Stringham, to prepare an expedition to attack and take the place, but not to attempt to hold it. The batteries were to be destroyed, and the "bulk-head," or narrow neck of channel which connects the inlet with the Albemarle Sound, was to be filled by sinking a wreck. This accomplished, the forces were to return to Old Point Comfort. Information that such an expedition had been projected was, as usual, communicated to the rebels through the columns of the New York newspapers; so loosely do we conduct our affairs. Yet so careful are we in some respects, that a large number of secessionists-prisoners of war-who had been sent to Old Point Com-rolled about like a tub, but somehow she held fort on their way to Norfolk, were detained a week lest they should communicate some information on the subject, while our own newspapers were giving the enemy all the information needed. It is somewhat singular, too, that the journal, to which the rebels acknowledge the greatest indebtedness, is one which makes the most clamorous professions of loyalty, and which is most tempestuous in its calls for suppression of incendiary sheets. Under these circumstances the expedition left Old Point Comfort. Of what it accomplished, and how, I propose now to give you some account, as I saw with my own eyes and heard with my own ears. Notwithstanding my eyes are not of the best, I feel tolerably certain of whatever I thought I saw; as what I have heard has come from gentlemen, and experienced gentlemen, I feel sure that what I have heard is true. The expedition left Hampton Roads at a few minutes after one o'clock on Monday afternoon, precisely the hour agreed upon three days previously-a marvellous circumstance, truly, and one which promised very well for the success of the enterprise. It consisted of the Minnesota, the Wabash, the Pawnee, the Monticello, and the Harriet Lane, war vessels, the steamers George Peabody and Adelaide, transports, and the steam-tug Fanny. Two iron boats and two flat fishing boats, all intended to be used as surf-boats, were taken along, and also a dismasted schooner, which it was proposed to sink in the Bulk-head. The frigate Cumberland was expected to arrive off Hatteras to join the attack, and the Susquehanna, side-wheel steam ship-of-war, then overdue at Hampton Roads, was also under orders to follow as early as possible. The transports conveyed five hundred men of the New York Twentieth regiment, (German Turners,) with Colonel Weber and Lieutenant-Colonel Weiss, two hundred and twenty men of the New York Ninth, under Colonel Hawkins' command, two companies of the Union Coast Guard, (the Naval Brigade, as it was once called,) under Captain Nixon, and a company from the Second U. S. Artillery under Captain Larned. It was Nothing could be more pleasant than the passage down. The Minnesota, in which I was so extremely fortunate as to secure a passage, and from the deck of which I witnessed the events I am about to describe, led the way, but was soon passed by all the vessels except the Wabash. Of course the flag-ship was compelled to regulate her motions by those of the slowest of the fleet; that is why she was so slow. The Fanny, as she passed us, was a study. She is, you must know, merely a canal boat. She together, and was as sound as ever when I last saw her, on Friday, at Hatteras Inlet. But they were obliged to lash the boiler down to the deck with ropes. Lieutenant Crosby, who commanded her, went as a volunteer; he deserves much credit for his valor-perhaps less for his discretion. It was two o'clock in the afternoon of Tuesday when the Minnesota and the Wabash arrived off Hatteras, where the remainder of the fleet were found waiting orders. Proceed|ing to a position near enough to the inlet to enable us to see something of the ground which was to be operated upon, the Monticello was sent to make a reconnoissance of the point, with a view to ascertain whether any important changes had taken place, and to look out a proper location for landing. Nothing more could be done that night; so the vessels were taken to an offing. Orders were given for breakfast at four o'clock in the morning. Accordingly, at that hour all hands were called, and by two bells-that's five o'clock, you land lubber-the whole fleet was active with preparations for the conflict. The Monticello, the Pawnee, and the Harriet Lane were sent to cover and assist generally in landing the troops, and they took up a position about two miles and a half north of the forts, and near by the spot where lays the wreck of the barque Linwood, at which point it was thought possible to effect a landing. The Cumberland had come bravely to time, and was taken in tow by the Wabash, but a great deal of time was occupied in effecting these arrangements. The iron and flat boats were meanwhile filling with troops from the steamers, and the hundred marines who had been taken from the war vessels to increase the land forces. The Wabash went up to the battery first, drawing the Cumberland after her. The Minnesota followed, and as we drew near the point the two batteries and the barracks of the rebels were plainly visible. In the sound, beyond the narrow neck of land, several vessels-three steamers, some schooners under sail, and a brig laying at anchor under the guns of the forts-were clearly seen. Time 9.45. Boom! Whiz-z-z! The Wabash opens the action, and plants three shells. apparently directly in the small, or northern battery. The fort responds promptly, but a shout of derisive laughter from the gun deck is the comment, when its shot falls in the water at half the distance from the fort to the ship. Every gun-captain in the ship is anxiously waiting the order to fire. The word is passed, "No firing until it is ordered from the quarter-deck!" It is misunderstood on the gun-deck. Somebody says it is, Fire when you're ready!" On the shore, half-way between the forts and the landing, twenty or thirty horses are running toward our troops, and twice as many cows are running in the opposite direction. Bang! goes a gun from the main deck, and a shell is landed almost among the cows. At the same instant the Harriet Lane sent a messenger of the same sort among them, and the animals find their way across the peninsula. Then the gunner discovers his mistake. He thought he was firing at the enemy's cavalry as they charged up the beach. Now the order is understood, and the men stand by their pieces, watching the effect of the shells which now go thick and fast from the Cumberland and Wabash, and of the shots which begin to come from the smaller and upper fort. "Fire the pivot gun when you're ready!" is the order now passed forward to Mr. Foster, and directly we get within range a nine-inch shell is sent from the bow, and explodes just over Fort Clark. We pass inside of the other vessels, nearly a quarter of a mile nearer the shore, and the fire, once opened from the Minnesota's batteries, is kept up with the greatest rapidity while we remain within range. The enemy's shots come near us, but do not quite reach us. The ship is put about so as to return, presenting the other broadside to the shore, and, as she wears, a couple of shot drop under her stern at a distance of a dozen yards or so. We go back north of the other vessels, and returning again, we are in season to see a shot dropped midway between the Wabash and Cumberland. Another passes just over our bow, and drops beyond us; and so the firing is kept up constantly, and manifestly with terrible effect upon the forts. were landed it was not easy to judge, but evidently only a small portion of the force. What would har pen to them it was not easy to guess, but we had seen a party march out from Fort Clark early in the action, apparently for the purpose of making an attack-a purpose which, if ever entertained, was soon reconsidered; for, after making half the distance between the fort and the landing, the party turned back. What number of troops were in the forts we had no means of knowing, but it appeared probable that there were quite enough to give our forces much trouble. During the action the scenes on the decks of the Minnesota were most exciting. What do you think of arming negroes? Wouldn't Wendell Phillips have found a text for an oration had he stood on that deck watching halfa-dozen contrabands, who came from the batteries at Yorktown to seek the protection of Fortress Monroe, as they worked the after gun of the upper deck? Certainly it was a sight which I little expected ever to see when I left your office to take notes of the war. But opinions change very rapidly under the accelerating influence of revolutionary times. First our soldiers were to quell servile insurrections. Then they were to protect contrabands who should relieve them of fatigue duty. Then the contraband doctrine went down before a new comer, looking very much like general emancipation. And in the last days of August, in the first year of our civil war, the negro stands by the side of the white man, fighting the battles of the country. Mr. Phillips may think this more important than the capture of seven hundred prisoners with a flag officer at their head, or even the possession of two rebel forts and a thousand stand of arms. At any rate, whether the incident has any peculiar significance or not, let me say that the negroes worked wellnever better-and they evidently enjoyed the business. And another lesson, as if to prove that this is no sectional war, no contest for subjugation: I see in the bow of the vessel, commanding his division-no fire more rapid than his-no aim more deadly-the stalwart form of a noble Kentuckian; and I know that elsewhere in the fleet, Virginia and Maryland are represented by their sons, bravely battling for the Union. Who are fighting for their home?-those who, under the banners of the usurpers, are disputing the authority of the best government the world ever saw, or those who are fighting for their homes as they were? The Susquehanna, which hove in sight very shortly after the commencement of the action, comes up in fine style and takes a hand in the fight after the first hour. The air is so filled with smoke that it is only occasionally that we get a view of the batteries on shore, both of which keep up a feeble attempt at responding. A noticeable incident happened on the gunWe had already seen that the surf was mak- deck. A sponger dropped his sponge overboard, ing great mischief with the landing of the troops. Before the officer of the deck could utter a word It was only with great difficulty and no small of reproach, the man had jumped overboard, peril that troops were landed at all, and we got back somehow mysteriously through the now perceived that further attempts were aban-port-hole, the sponge was hanging in its place doned. The two wooden boats were entirely dripping with water, and the sailor stood dripdestroyed, and appearances indicated what was ping before his officer. He got a promotion afterward learned to be the fact, that the iron for his cool conduct. The reverend chaplain, boats had been swamped. How many troops I observe, too, sometimes almost forgets his |