IMPORTANT FROM PORT ROYAL: The Expedition to Jacksonville; DESTRUCTION OF REBEL BATTERIES (10/19/1862)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 10/19/1862

[Homer_J_Simpson]

PORT ROYAL, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 1862.

The return of Brig.-Gen. BRANNAN and his command from Jacksonville yesterday puts me in full possession of the particulars concerning the successful expedition against that place, and as only an in- complete account has gone North, I shall send a brief and connected narrative of the circumstances.

The expedition left Hilton Head on the afternoon of the 30th ultimo, consisting of the Pennsylvania Forty-seventh Regiment, Col. GOOD; the Connecticut Seventh Regiment, Col. HAWLEY; a section of the First Connecticut Battery, under Lieut. CARMON, and a detachment of the First Massachusetts Cavalry, under Capt. CASE, making a total effective of 1,573. The troops were embarked on the steamers Ben Deford, Boston, Cosmopolitan and Neptune, and arrived off the bar of the St. John's River early on the morning following their departure, but were unable to enter the river until 2 P.M. in consequence of the shallowness of the channel. There the expedition was joined by the gunboats Paul Jones, Capt. STEEDMAN, commanding the fleet; Cimerone, Capt. WOODHULL; Water Witch, Lieut.-Com. PENDERGAST; E.B. Hale, Lieut.-Com. SNELL; Uncas, Lieut.-Com. CRANE, and the Patroon, Lieut.-Com. URANO. The same afternoon three gunboats were sent up to feel the position of the battery on the Bluff, and were immediately and warmly engaged, the enemy apparently having a number of heavy guns in his works.

The debarkation of our troops was effected at a place known as Mayport Mills, situated a short distance from the entrance of the river, and all the men, horses, rations and arms, were on shore by 9 o'clock on the evening of the 1st.

The country between this point and St. John's Bluff presented great difficulties in the transportation of troops, being intersected with impassable swamps and unfordable creeks,

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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Important from Port Royal: The Expedition to Jacksonville – 2-3
From the Army of the Potomac: Return of the Reconnoitering Forces – 3-4
The War in Missouri: Activity Among the Rebels in the Southeast – 4
Affairs in New-Mexico: The Return of Gen. Carleton to Albuquerque – 4-6
Affairs in Utah: Indian Tragedies – 6
News from Washington– 6-7
News from the South: Very Plain Talk from a Rebel – 7-8
The Chase of Stuart’s Cavalry – 8
Editorial: Why Should there be Delay? – 8
Our Iron-Clads – 8-9
Editorial: Cost of his Little Joke – 9
A Silver Lining – 9
Editorial: Quackery and Brutality on the Battle-Field – 9-10
Beef for the Rebel Army – 10
Editorial: A New Plan for a Camp Hospital – 10
The Tourniquet on the Great Western Artery – 10-11
Parson Brownlow Commits a Blunder and Partially Redeems Himself – 11

[C19fan]

Union Army doing real damage to the Confederate tourism with occupying Hilton Head Island and hitting Jacksonville.