The fight at Bay Point.
severe contest — retreat of the Confederates--capture of batteries by the enemy. Savannah Nov. 8.
--Forts Walker and Bay Point batteries were evacuated on yesterday afternoon after a terrible contest, in which we lost 12 killed and 40 wounded. Our troops retreated after exhausting all our ammunition.
We lost no prisoners.
All of our guns were lost on the forts, and the Federal flag is now flying over our forts.
[second Dispatch.]
Savannah, Nov. 8, P. M.
--The steamer Sampson has arrived here from Port Royal with the wounded.
The engagement on yesterday was between Fort Walker and Bay Point batteries against fifteen vessels inside and several outside.
Two hundred men were at Fort Walker and thirteen hundred outside on Hilton Head.
The steamship Minnesota was the first to enter, and was followed rapidly by others.
The attack was from three sides, and after the second round from the fleet, the principal gun in our battery was dismounted.
The engagement lasted five hours, and all the guns on the fort were dismounted, except two.
As the forts were no longer tenable, the two remaining guns were dismounted, and the magazine arranged to be blown up when the enemy entered.
The total loss of the Confederates was about 100. Sergeant F. Parkerson and private Heiss, of the Barry Infantry, were slightly wounded.
In the Georgia Foresters company two are missing.
In the Thomas County Volunteers, J. W. Fontaine is missing.
In the Seventeenth Patriots, private Amos Thompson is missing, and also one of Capt. Radcliffe's company.
General Drayton's aid was shot from his horse, and General Drayton was slightly wounded.
Dispatches to the Charleston papers say that our batteries worked badly, while the Federal's firing was excellent. 