The Mobile
Advertiser and Register publishes the following interesting items from its special correspondent at
Pensacola, dated Sunday night, Oct. 20.
I telegraphed you last night that
Lieut. C. Sayre, of the Confederate Marine corps, had been released on parole by
Col. Brown, on honor that when his wound would admit he should return to captivity, unless honorably exchanged.
I have just left his room; he is in fine humor, and in his own peculiar vein relates some of the incidents of the fight, in which he either played a part or witnessed Having participated in the advance move he was of course in the rear on the return march, when and where most of the casualties befell our side.
His leg was pierced with a Minnie ball from the regulars of
Lieut. Secley, who had by some means obtained the rear of our troops.
He was carried by his immediate companions some distance down the beach, where he was left, under the belief that he would be carried aboard a little Confederate guard schooner or sloop that was standing immediately for the shore but he was not discovered, and of course, fell into the hands of the foe. After our troops had left the
Island, he was approached by an officer on horseback, to whom he introduced himself as "
Lieutenant Sayre, of the
Confederate States marines.
The officer replied: "I am
Lieutenant Langdon, of the army — you shall be immediately cared for." He was next visited by some of
Wilson's boys, who promised him good treatment, and claiming him as their prisoner.
He was shortly after taken to the hospital, where he was treated with the utmost kindness by the
chief surgeon, the officers of the army, as well as by regulars and Zouave privates.
Colonel Brown also visited and conversed with him in the most amiable manner.
Lieutenant Sayre will divulge nothing that compromises his honor.
All our prisoners, while on the
Island, were treated in a similar manner; and it was no doubt gratifying to
Colonel Brown to learn that
General Bragg has acted in a like manner toward the
Federal prisoners in his hands.--
Lieut Sayre was brought over on a litter.
I send you below a correct list of our wounded and prisoners of war at
Fort Pickens, captured on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 8, 1861:
1st Lieut. Jas.
Cooper, La. Infy:
2d Lieut. F. W. Farley, 1st Fla. V.;
1st Lieut. C. L. Sayre, C. S. M. C., severely wounded;
Benj. R. Holt, 5th Ga.; Mal.
Mosely, 1st Fla.;
Corporal W. H. Moore, 7th Ala.;
L. G. Moore, 7th Ala.;
F. M. Fry. 7th Ala.;
H. Ferguson, 7th Ala., dead;
John Burgess, 5th Ala.,
Capt. Homer's
J. R. Cox, Ga., or
Miss. R.,
Capt. Rhodes's
H. C. Jones,
Ga. or
Miss. R.,
Capt. Rhodes's
J. M. L. Jones,
Ga. or
Miss. R.,
Capt. Rhodes's
John Mahoney, 1st Fla.,
Capt. Cripp's
Larkin Nickles, 1st Fla.,
Capt. Cripp's
Benj. F. Parker, 1st Fla.,
Capt. Baker's;
T. Bond, 1st Fla.;
R. L. Hale, 1st Fla.;
C. F. Hollyman, 1st Fla.;
John Jarvis, 1st Fla.;
J. J. H. Patterson, 1st Fla.;
S. Yager Finley, 1st Fla.;
Wm. Mauldin, 10th Miss.,
Capt.Peake's;
H. Destringer, 10th
Miss,
Capt. McKeever's;
Daniel Jones, La. Infy;
Frank Passent, La. infy;
G. W. Clark,
Ga. or
Miss. R., severely wounded;
Everett, dead;
John Godley, Fla. One man dead on the
Island — unknown.
We have learned that our prisoners all sailed on the 16th, we know not where, but probably for New York or the Tortugas.
The wounded and sick in our hospitals are all slowly but gradually improving.
The ladies are ceaseless in their efforts to reader endurable their misfortunes by battle and camp.
The old dry dock, or rather its remains, I am told, floated off Friday night during a very high tide, and now lies precisely where it was originality intended to place it — right on the bar. Home officers from Flekens visited the old bulk Saturday morning, We shall have account of their visit and impression in New York one of these days.
