LOSS OF KOANOKE ISLAND.

8 FEBRUARY, 1862.

Report or InvestiGatinc ComMITTrEE CoNFEDERATE ConGREss.

 

 

The committee to whom was referred a resolution of the
House of Representatives, instructing them to inquire and re-
port the cases and circumstances of the capitulation of
Roanoke Island, have had the same under consideration and
have given all the facts and circumstances connected with
the defences of said Island and its adjacent waters, and of the
capitulation on 8 February, a most elaborate investigation.
The committee find that on 21 August, 1861, Brigadier-Gen-
eral Gatlin was ordered to the command of the Department ©
of North Carolina and the coast defences of that State. On
29 September Brigadier-General D. H. Hill was assigned to
duty in North Carolina and charged with the defences of
that portion of said State lying between Albemarle Sound
and the Neuse river and Pamlico Sound, including those
waters, and was directed to report to Brigadier-General Gat-
lin. On 16 November Brigadier-General L. O’B. Branch
x) J iY was directed to relieve Brigadier-General Hill in command of
ot nea coal fig. _ pw“) Se & ’ his district in North Carolina. On 21 December that part
me oe of the North Carolina coast east of the Chowan river, to-

: gether with the counties of Washington and Tyrrell, was, at
the request of the proper authorities of North Carolina, sepa-
rated from the remainder and constituted into a military dis-
trict under Brigadier-General H. A. Wise, and attached to
the command of Major-General Huger, commanding the De-
partment of Norfolk.

At the time therefore of the surrender of Roanoke Island
on 8 February, 1862, it was within the military district of

Aekrpatng Confederates were prone

 

 

 

 

BATTLE OF ROANOKE ISLAND, FEB. 8, 1862.

Notr.—This is the report made by the Roanoke Island Investigating
Committee by its Chairman, Hon. Burgess 8. Gaither, to the House of

Representatives in the Confederate Congress.—Ep.