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VOLUME II CAMDEN, SO. CA., FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1863. NUMBER 39
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STRUGGLE I'Olt MORRIS ISLAND*
AWFUL BOMUAHDMENT OF BATTERY WAGNER
A NIGHT ASSAULT UPON OUR WOHKS? SIGNAL
AND BLOODV REPULSE OF TIIE FOE.
Saturday last will be a day which will be
forever memorable in the history of Charles- j
ton. The heavy rains had moderated the ex- j
cessive heat of the preceding fortnight, the
morning sky was cloudless, and the light breeze
scarcely ruffled the placid waters of the harbor*
BOMBARDMENT OF BATTERY WAGNER.
About eight o'clock the desultory cannonade
with which the experience of a week had
made our community familiar was again heard.
For nearly three hours the enemy's lire was
maintained with the usual deliberation; but
about eleven o'clock it was noticed that the re
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])orts canic in iar more iujmu miuuwiuh. j>>
noon it became >vcll un del stood that the foe
was resolved to subject our position to an ordeal
much more severe than any which, up to
Jthat time, it had encountered. At that hour,
as we learn by accounts from Morris Island, the
converging tire of the enemy against the battery
had become truly fearful. Five Monitors,
the frigate Ironsides, seven wooden gunboats,
with the land batteries which the Y ankees had
> thrown up on the lower portion of the Island,
kept up a constant rain of shot and shell into
our works. No less than sixty-five heavy guns
and eight mortars arc known to have been in
play against us. At one time, so rapid was the
fire, that the reports averaged twenty-seven per
Um At,nut Mr* Isiv northeast of
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Battery Wagner ami two to tlie southeast, while
the otheis, with the Ironsides, kept a position
nearly opposite the sea face of the battery.?
The wooden gunboats manoeuvred at some distance
outside the line of "turrcttcd monsters,"
relying chiefly upon their long range rifled
siege guns. There were two Yankee batteries
on Morris Island?one, consisting of two guns
and a mortar, was located at Craig's Ilill, within
about eight hundred yards of our battery;
the other was beyond Graham's House, and
had .au armament of eight rifled shell guns.?
It is estimated that during the day, no less
than nine thousand shells were fired at. the 1
battery.
The bombardment, as viewed from cminen- '
'he itv, was a grand and terrible sight.
Tiif > ?i;./ n, from Fort Moultrie to Vinegar
' JIill, was crown- : with the shifting niaves of
the smoke of tli mtllict. hncli moment the
enemy's shells, .-cmctiincs singly, sometimes in
clusters, couhl he s< en bursting just above the
site of Battery Wagner; hut when, at intervals,
the clouds of white smoke lifted for a time j
from the scene, the flag of the brave garrison |
could be seen still waving defiantly in the !
breeze, while with grim regularity and deliberation
our guns kept replying to the foe.
For eleven consecutive hours the bombardment
raged with more or less violence. About
-dusk the fire, which during the afternoon had
been incessant (probably with the design *of
demoralizing our men and unfitting them lbr
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the expected night's work), began to slacken
considerably, and at dark ceased almost en-'
tirely. The results, thus far* had been of a
character to give us good cause for encouragement
and gratnlation. The damage to our
' battery was insignificant and of a kind easily
and speedily repairable. The bombproofs had
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afforded efficient protection to a large portion
of tlie garrison, and. our casualties at seven
o'clock, p. in., were but lour killed and fourteen
wounded. Of the enemy's losses from our fire,
if any, we have, of course, no trustworthy account.
Fort Sumter, which bore a part in tlio
action, sent several shells into the Craig Hill
; JUattcries, and also into the camp of the enemy,
about three and a quarter miles distant, it is
believed, with good effect.
THE NIGHT ATTACK.
A few minutes before eight o'clock our pickets
gave notice that the enemy, in heavy force,
was moving'to the assault. The attack was
not unexpected, and our men, though much
jaded by the fatigues and exposures of the day,
st>rany to their nlaees with zeal and alacritv.?
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The enemy advanced in two columns of about
3,000 men each, the whole under the command
of Brigadier General Strong. The column
which attacked our right was composed partij
ally of negro troops, who were put in the adj
vance. On our left, the other column advanced
with spirit, under a severe fire from the
Dahlgrccn trur.s and Columbiads of Fort SumO
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ter. As the column advanced at the doublequick,
the guns of Battery Wagner also opened,
When the enemy had reached a point about
sixty yards distant, our infantry posted behind
the parapet, poured a galling fire into the
moving masses; the Yankees, nevertheless, in
considerable force, succeeded in gaining the
trench, and began to clamber up the sides of
the battery. At this moment, Lieut. Watieos,
of Blake's Battery, who was in charge of two
brass howitzers (belonging to a detachment of
artillery under Capt. Del hiss, of White's Battalion)
opened a raking fire which swept the
stretch* playing terrific havoc in the ranks of
the assailants. The howitzers had been assigned
to this position which they occupied so
advantageously for us, at the instance of Col.
Harris, of the Engineers, all the horses belonging
to the section having been put hors da
combat during the day. Twice the enemy was
driven hack at this part of our works (the left)
and the trench filled with the enemy's dead
attests the severity of the conflict there.
On the right, the negro troops were met
with a terrible cross fire of musketry. Here
were posted, among other troops, the Charleston
Battalion, and these gallant men behaved
in a manner worthy the fame their organization
had so dearly won at Secessionville.?
The second assault was still more desperate
than the first, but it was met and recoiled in
the same gallant style by the brave troops,
Georgians, North Carolinians, and sons of our
own city, who stood shoulder to shoulder in
the fight.
In the centre of our lines a small body of
the enemy succeeded in gaining a lodgment in
a salient, the gun of which had been disabled.
Here they maintained their position for more (
than an hour. A gallant but unsuccessful attempt
was made to dislodge them, in which ,
Captain Bvan fell, aud it was not until a small j
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mrce oi ueorgiaiis iihu asuuuucu me magazine
ami thus gained a position to command the
salient that the audacious Yankees surrendered.
At the time that this occurred the tiring
elsewhere had ceased, and the Georgians accomplished
their purpose without firing, a gun.
The movement by which this was effected was
undertaken at the suggestion of Col Harris.
.THE RELATIVE LOSSES. i
The fight lasted from eight until eleven p.
m., and was of a desperate character through- 1
out. The enemy's losses were very heavy.?
Ilis killed and wounded must have been at
least fifteen hundred. The number of his
dead left on the field and buried by us yesterday
exceeded six hundred. AYe captured over ,
two hundred prisoners, including a few of the
negro troops.
Our own losses were comparatively light.?
It is estimated that our Jailed and wounded '
will not exceed one hundred. Among these,
however, were some valuable officers, such as
Lieutenant Colonel Simkins and Captain Ta- (
turn, of the 1st S. C. Infantry, and Captain
Ryan, of the Charleston Battalion, killed, and
Major Ramsay, of the Charleston Battalion,
severely wounded.? Charleston Mercury, 21 st. i
The New Call for troops. j j
The following is the proclamation of the j
President, extending the call under the Con-1
scription Act, to embrace all residents of the ]
Confederacy, between 18 and 45 years, not le- <
gaily exempt. Under the terms of the procla- j i
mation and rulings of the Confederate Courts, 1
foreigners, who are actual residents, will be (
called upon to do military service in defence ?
of the country in which they reside : J
PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT. i
Whereas, it is provided by an act of Con- i
gress, entitled " an act to further provide for (
the public defence," approved ou the 16th day ]
of April, 1803, and by another act of Congress j .
approved on the 27th September, 1862, enti- ]
tied "an act to amend an act entitled and act to
provide further for the public defence, ap- j <
provide 16th April, 1862," that the President be
authorized to call out and place in the mil- ;
itarv service of the Confederate States, for three j 1
years, unless the war shall have been sooner i
ended, all white men who are residents of the 1
Confederate States, between the ages of cigli- ; ]
teen and forty-five years, at the time the call I
may be made, and who are not, at such time, J j
legally exempted from military service, or such ^
part thereof as in his judgement may bo neces- ' .
sary to the public defence. i
And whereas, in my judgment the neecssi- ! s
ties of the public defence require that every i v
man capable of bearing arms, between the ages f c
aforesaid, should now be called out to do his j
duty in the defence of his country and in dri- r
ving back the invaders now within the limits of v
the Confederacy : *
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Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President ,
of tlie Confederate States of America, do, bv ^
virtue of the powers vested in me aforesaid, ,
call out and place in the military service of the j
Confederate States, all white men residents of ^
said States between the ages of eighteen and jforty
five years, not legally exempted from rail- q
itary service; and I do hereby order and direct s
that all persons subject to this call and not now /
the military service, do, upon being enrolled,in ^
forthwith repair to the conscript camps estab- p
lished in their respective States of which they a
ina}* be residents, under pain of being held and r
punished as deserters in the event of their fail- ^
lire to obey this call, as provided in said laws. ^
And I do further order, and direct, that the
enrolling officers of the several States proceed c
at once to enroll all persons embraced within
the terms of this proclamation, and not hereto- s,
fore enrolled. j
And I do further order, that it shall be law- (;
ful for any person embraced within this call to
volunteer for service before enrollment, and
that persons so volunteering be allowed ^tose- g
!ect the arm of service and the company which
tliev desire to join, provided such company be r,
deficient in the full number of men allowed by a
law for its organization. 1,
C*ivei\under my hand and Seal of the Coufod- p
crate States of America, at the city of f(
[Seal.] Richmond, this fifteenth day of July, in a
the year of our Lord one thousand eight 0
hundred and sixty-three. 0
(Signed) JEFFERSON DAVIS, a
l>y the President:
(Signed) ^
J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of State. v
General Grant.?Gen, Grant is described
as about five feet nine inches high, has sandy
hair and whiskers, blue eves, a firm and determined
mouth, a well-shaped nose, and a ^
complexion that shows the cflcet of exposure.
lie prides himself on horsemanship. At the S(
battle of Monterey he was ordered to carry an n
order to a point where lie had to pass the fire 11
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ui a uiiuuiy. i_iu j.uil bjmub tw iiib iiuiai;, tuiun \
himself on one side, after the manner of the In- r
dians, holding on by tlic horse's mane, and by v
one leg thrown over the cantle of the saddle, r
and in this position leaped a four foot wall.
Gen. Grant was married soon after he left the s
regular army, and has now three children, one ^
of whom, a boy, about six years old, is nearly ^
as good a rider as his father.?Northern jxtper. ?
Latest from the United States?Great
Riot lit New York.
Richmond, July 17.?Northern dates of July
15 have just been received. The Herald
)f the 14th contains the particulars of a great
iot under displayed captions, occupying neary
a column, as follows : uTlie Draft?TreraenJous
Excitement in.the City?Popular Oppoltion
to the enforcement of Conscription?Tho
Bnrolling Officers of the 8th District Demolshed?Two
Whole Blocks on Third Avenue,
lear Broadway, Burned?The Military Orlered
Out?Several Citizens and Soldiers
Killed?Arrival of the Police on the Ground
? Another Attack on the Crowd?The Police
Dispersed, Some Killed, Others Badly Beaten
?Superintendent. Kennedy Severely Wound?d*?An
Armory on Second Avenue Destroyed
?Raid on the Xegros?Colored Orphan
\sylum Lai J it) Ashes?The Bull's Head Hotel
Destroyed?Two Mansions in Lexington A voice
Sacked ?The Tribune Office Attacked?
nf tlin Aoe.iilnI... <l>/> IJ,11 ? A
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Sogro Hanged, etc., etc.
The Heral ds summary says that at one timo
lie number of people assembled on the spot
vas from 20,000 to f>0,000. Affairs assumed
i serious look; several buildings were destroyed,
nanv lives lost, and several of the citizens and
oldicrs and police were wounded. Private
rouses, in not a. few instances, were broken
>pcn and despoiled. The N. Y. Times of the
L5tli, gives an account of the progress of the
iot on the preeeeding day. It says that a
astly larger number were engaged than on
donday, and tho spectators increased also by
any thousands. Several encounters took
ilaee between the mob, the Police and the
nilitary. A large number of the rioters were
tilled. Col. O'Brien, of the lltli New York,
vho commanded a portion of the forces,- was
icaten to death by the crowd and then hung.
?he streets were barricaded, buildings burned,
tores sacked, and private dwellings plundered.
U1 the largo manufacturing establishments
/ere closed, and every branch of business sus"
ended, Gov. Seymour arrived from Albany,
nd addressed the crowd from the steps of tho
'ity Hall, lie announced that lie had sent to
Vashington to ask the Government to stop
he draft in the city for tho present. Subseuently
he issued a proclainotion declaring the
ity and the county in a state of insurrection.
A despatch from Sringfield, Mass., July 14?
ays : "A riot has broken out amongst the
Iartford troops, sent to protect the Arsenal,
lonsiderablo excitement exist in tho city."
Two gentlemen on thursdav took a back for
leccssionville, and were charged 840 for the
rip, or 820 each, which they paid. The* fact
cached an oflicer on duty; near Seceseionville
nd the hack driver, who was congratulating
imself on driving a good bargain, was imressed
into service. The example should be
allowed in other cases. We need drivers for
mbnlances, and Quartermaster's wagons, and
tlier purposes, and good use should be made
f the extortioners who have been and are excting
outrageous prices from the necessities or
^norance of strangers. Any soldiers or others
/ho suffer such extortion should report the
nets nromntlv.? Charleston Cmirier.
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lVcws from Richmond.
Richmond, July 19.?Nothing of importance
as transpired to-day. The chief topic of talk
5 the arrest of Mrs. Allen, wife of Mr. Patteron
Allen, on a charge of communicatingjinforlation
to the enemy. The accussed is a- naive
of Ohio, and became united by marriage
in Europe) with one of the most wealthy and
espectable families of Richmond. Letters
written by her, to be forwarded by blockade
miners, constitute t he evidence of her guilt.
An officer from the Valley this evening
tates tiiat Mead's arffiy is still in Maryland.
The Yankee cavalry advanced on the 18th from
iVillamsport to within four miles of Martinsirg.
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