Posted on 08/14/2023 6:20:49 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
The transport steamer Arago, from Port Royal on the morning of the 10th inst., and Charleston Bar at 8 P.M. of the same day, arrived here yesterday morning.
The Arago brings the usual mails and a large number of passengers. The One Hundred and Seventy-sixth regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, (600 strong,) Col. SECHLER, whose term of service has expired, are on board.
The following brief letter gives the very latest news regarding the progress of the siege of Charleston:
CHARLESTON BAR, Monday, Aug. 10 -- 5 P.M.
Gen. GILLMORE has notified Admiral DAHLGREN that he will be in readiness to open the grand assault on Thursday, the 13th inst.
The navy is all ready, waiting for the army, so that the fight, it is believed, will commence on that day.
The greatest confidence is felt as to the result.
The fall of Forts Sumter, Wagner and Cummings Point is regarded as certain to take place in from two to six hours after the ball opens.
A deserter from Fort Wagner says that two-thirds of the guns have been removed from Fort Sumter and mounted on James Island, and that the fall of Sumter is regarded by the rebels as a certainty, the damage done by the Monitors in April last rendering the possibility of the rebels holding it not to be thought of.
The deserter says that Sumter was on the point of surrendering at that time, when, fortunately for the rebels, the Monitors withdrew.
We have shelling night and day. Fort Johnson keeps up a brisk fire, and our wooden gunboats go in every day, and amuse themselves by shelling them.
At night the rebels shell our land batteries, and we shell them in return.
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