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The Daily Dispatch: October 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
The fight at Santa Rosa Island.further particulars. The Pensacola Observer brings us the following further particulars in relation to the fight at Santa Rosa Island: We are enabled this evening to give a fuller account of the engagement Santa Rosa Island: We are enabled this evening to give a fuller account of the engagement of Tuesday night last on Santa Rosa Island, between the Confederates and the Yankee troops. There are many rumors afloat in regard to the matter, but we have endeavored to obtain the most reliable. Although it was a serious and bloody fight, thereSanta Rosa Island, between the Confederates and the Yankee troops. There are many rumors afloat in regard to the matter, but we have endeavored to obtain the most reliable. Although it was a serious and bloody fight, there were many amusing incidents in the engagement, which we shall publish from time to time. There was some $500 in gold, and a watch, taken by the soldier from the tents of the officers, besides other valuables. Many of Wilson's Zouaves were bayonetanswer — the whipping and routing from their very homes Billy Wilson and his pirates, together with the regulars of Santa Rosa Island, answer. Then, Southerners, take courage. Go to battle with renewed energy and courage, and ere long the last
The Daily Dispatch: October 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], The New popular currency of the United States. (search)
The Santa Rosa victory. correspondence between General Bragg and Col. Brown. The following is the correspondence between Gen. Bragg, at Pensacola, and Col. Brown, Commandant at Fort Pickens, alluded to briefly heretofore in connection with the Confederate victory on Santa Rosa Island: Headquarters Dep't Florida, Fort Pickens, Oct. 9, 1861. Sir: --I observe this morning, for the first time, a yellow flag hoisted over a large building directly in front of my batteries. I also understand that officers' wives and children are in the adjoining buildings. I do not make war on the sick, women, or children. The buildings will necessarily be exposed to my fire should there be a bombardment, and they are besides subject under this flag to be used as protection to any of your troops that may take shelter behind or before them. I therefore give you this notice — that the sick, women, and the children, may be removed, so that if fired on the responsibility may rest
The Daily Dispatch: October 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
From Pensacola. Augusta, Ga., Oct. 16. --Pensacola intelligence to the 13th inst. has been received. It is announced that a flag of truce was sent from Fort Pickens to Gen. Bragg on yesterday, stating that the prisoners would be sent to New York on Sunday. Gen. Bragg sent the Paymaster over to pay off the men in full for the remainder of their term. [The above dispatch is not as explicit as could be desired, but the inference is that the prisoners on each side have been paroled and exchanged; and hence the object in returning to New York the paroled Federal prisoners. taken by the Confederate troops on Santa Rosa Island.]