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The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], [from another correspondent of the Sun.] (search)
left on the field, that the supposed enemy was a friend. They had in the meantime fired nine rounds with the small arms and a field piece. The Zouaves hearing the firing, had returned, and fired also upon the Albany boys. At daybreak Col. Allen's and Col. Carr's regiments moved from the rear of the Fortress to support the main body. The mistake at Little Bethel having been ascertained, the buildings were burned, and a Major, with two prominent Secessionists, named Livey and Whiting, made prisoners. The troops then advanced upon Great Bethel in the following order, viz: The Zouaves, Col. Benedix, Lt. Col. Washburn, Col. Allen and Col. Carr. At that point the troops found and successively endeavored to take a large masked Confederate battery. The effort was futile, their three small pieces of artillery not being able to cope with the heavy rilled cannon of the enemy, according to some accounts numbering thirty. The Confederate battery was so completely masked that
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Still Further accounts. (search)
e generalship, the Federal force, after several bold assaults, were compelled to retire, which they did in tolerably fair order, their rear harassed by a troop of Confederate cavalry. The loss to the Federal troops was very considerable, but I cannot state the number. Col. Duryea's New York Zouaves had seven killed, forty-two wounded and four missing. The four other regiments, Albany, Col. Townsend; Steuben Volunteers, Massachusetts, Col. Benedix; Troy, Col. Carr, and First New York, Col. Allen, all suffered severely.--About twenty artillerists of the regular army, under Lieut. Greble, acted gallantly, and Lieut. G. was shot dead while working one of his guns. He had three 12-pound howitzers. He is said to have relations in Baltimore, and was highly esteemed by his fellow-officers. The force of the Confederates in the conflict is variously estimated at from eight hundred to twenty-five hundred, and was said to be an advance body from the forces at Yorktown. The Federa