IMPORTANT FROM NEW-ORLEANS: Galveston Recaptured by the Rebels under Magruder; DEATH OF COMMODORE RENSHAW (1/12/1863)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 1/12/1862

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The United States mail steamship Creole, GEO. W. COUGH, Commander, from New-Orleans Jan. 3, at 6:30 P.M.,; southwest Pass, Jan. 4, at 7:40 A.M., with mails, merchandise and passengers, consigned to LUDLAM, HEINEKEN Co., arrived here last evening.

She brings the important intelligence of the recapture of Galveston by the rebels. The particulars of the affair are given in the following statement by the Purser of the Creole:

NEW-YORK, Sunday, Jan. 11.

To the Agent of the Associated Press:

By the arrival of the United States gunboat Cliftan at Southwest Pass, on the evening of Jan. 3, I learn that early on the morning of Jan 1. the rebels made an attack on the Federal forces at Galveston.

Our gunboats were attacked by five rebel steamers, protected by double rows of bales of cotton, and loaded with troops armed with rides, muskets, shot-guns, &c.

The Harriet Lane was captured by boarding after about all of her officers, including Capt. WAINWRIGHT and Lieut. LEE, and a crew of 130, all told, had been killed by musketry from the rebel steamer. My informant states that but one or two of the officers, and but twelve or fifteen of the crew escaped death. The gunboats Clifton and Owasco were engaged and escaped; the former losing no men, and but one wounded. The Owasco lost one killed and thirteen wounded. Two barks loaded with coal fell into the hands of the enemy.

The Westfield, (flag-ship,) Commodore RENSHAW, was not engaged, being ashore in another channel. Her crew were transferred to transports, and Commodore RENSHAW, fearing she would fall into the hands of the rebels, blew her up. By some mismanagement or accident, the explosion took place before a boat containing Commodore RENSHAW, First Lieut. ZIMMERMANN and the boat's crew got away,

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Important from New-Orleans: Galveston Recaptured by the Rebels under Magruder – 2-3
News from Fortress Monroe: Rebel Reports from the Southwest – 3
The War in Tennessee: The Rebel Gen. Forrest in Franklin – 3
Important from Vicksburgh: The Repulse of Gen. Sherman Complete – 3
Rebel Barbarity: Outrageous Treatment of Our Wounded and Sick Men at Holly Springs – 4
News from Washington: Twenty Thousand of Our Men Exchanged – 4-5
The Dangers of Steam: Terrific Boiler Explosion on a Government Transport – 5
Editorial: Bragg at Tullahoma – The Grand Bearings of Rosecrans’ Victory – 5
Editorial: The Operations Against Vicksburgh – 6
The Porter and McDowell Trials – 6
National Raid on the Pamunkey – 6

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