NEW YORK, April 22.
Capt. Elder who reached this city this P. M. states that on the 16th, as a reconnoitering party of the 8th Michigan Regiment went out under the command of Col. Fenton, to accompany Lieut. Wilson, of the engineer corps to Wilmington Island for the purpose of erecting fortifications, they encountered a regiment of Georgian troops in ambush, and a skirmish ensued, which ended in a complete rout of the rebels, leaving their dead on the field.
Our troops pursued them for two miles. As it was dark when they returned, our informant could not ascertain the number of the rebels killed and taken prisoners.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 24, 1862, p. 1
Capt. Elder who reached this city this P. M. states that on the 16th, as a reconnoitering party of the 8th Michigan Regiment went out under the command of Col. Fenton, to accompany Lieut. Wilson, of the engineer corps to Wilmington Island for the purpose of erecting fortifications, they encountered a regiment of Georgian troops in ambush, and a skirmish ensued, which ended in a complete rout of the rebels, leaving their dead on the field.
Our troops pursued them for two miles. As it was dark when they returned, our informant could not ascertain the number of the rebels killed and taken prisoners.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 24, 1862, p. 1
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