. Young folk's history of the war for the union . Benjamin Hugee. 186 ROANOKE.—NEW BERNE.—PULASKL [1863. heavy fire on them so that they suffered severely. They returnedthe fire, but were obliged to shelter themselves behind trees orin the hollows of the ground. In the mean time several regi-ments made their way through the swamp on the left so as toget on the Confederates right, and while these opened fire onthem the Hawkins Zouaves charged the battery in front. Shout-ing Zou! Zou! Zou! the red caps rushed over the narrowcauseway, followed by the Tenth Connecticut, and entered thebattery just
. Young folk's history of the war for the union . Benjamin Hugee. 186 ROANOKE.—NEW BERNE.—PULASKL [1863. heavy fire on them so that they suffered severely. They returnedthe fire, but were obliged to shelter themselves behind trees orin the hollows of the ground. In the mean time several regi-ments made their way through the swamp on the left so as toget on the Confederates right, and while these opened fire onthem the Hawkins Zouaves charged the battery in front. Shout-ing Zou! Zou! Zou! the red caps rushed over the narrowcauseway, followed by the Tenth Connecticut, and entered thebattery just as the Fifty-first New York and the Twenty-firstMassachusetts came in from the right. The Confederates fled,leaving everything behind them. The Union troops pressed onafter them to the northern end of the island, where about two. Troops Landing in Flat-Boat. thousand surrendered, a part escaping in boats to Nags a thousand more prisoners were taken in other parts ofthe island. Commodore Goldsborough had continued the bombardmentof Fort Bartow while the land fight was going on, but aboutfour oclock in the afternoon the Union flag was hoisted overits walls, and the crews of the gunboats greeted it with threehearty cheers. The Confederates burued the barracks in FortForrest opposite, and the Curlew, which had been run agroundunder its guns. Among the spoils taken in the different fortswere forty-two cannons and more than three thousand small-arms. Two days afterward the gunboats advanced into Albe-marle Sound, and thence to Elizabeth City, the most importanttown in that part of the State. Lynchs fleet was found there,supported by a battery on the shore, but after a short butsevere fight the vessels were run aground and set on fire by their 1862.] GALLANT JOHN DA VIS. 187 crews, and all the Confederates
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