Posted on 09/11/2023 9:34:00 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Sept. 8.
The following extracts are from the Richmond Examiner of Sept. 7:
CHARLESTON, Saturday, Sept. 5.
"To-day has witnessed another furious bombardment of Forts Wagner and Gregg by the enemy's fleet and land batteries. The firing was begun at daylight, and was maintained steadily until dark. A Monitor is now firing at Fort Moultrie. Another assault on Battery Wagner is deemed not improbable to-night. Since yesterday no further attack has been made on brick-bull Sumter, which has been held twenty days against all the efforts of the enemy's great guns by land and sea. Of 7,551 shots, which have been fired at it, 2,495 have struck outside, and 2,130 inside. The flag has been shot away fourteen times. The orders against exposure having been regidly enforced, our casualties were few.
SECOND DISPATCH.
CHARLESTON, Sunday, Sept. 6 -- 9:30 A.M. The bombardment of Batteries Wagner and Gregg has been incessant for the last fifty-two hours. The noise of the cannonade is tremendous.
Last night the enemy landed near Cummings Point in barges and assaulted Battery Gregg. The assault was repulsed. No particulars have been received.
The following arc extracts from the Richmond Whig, of Sept. 4:
CHARLESTON, Thursday, Sept. 3.
All is perfectly quiet to-day. There has been no firing whatever, but the enemy is reported closer to Battery Wagner. Last night was the quietest known here for three weeks past. Scarcely a gun was fired, except a few shots from Battery Wagner. The enemy is reported tinkering at the Monitors, as if repairing the damages sustained on Tuesday night.
A SAD MISHAP.
About 2 o'clock this morning the steamer Summer Bradford was fired into while transporting parts of the Twenty-third Georgia, the Sixty-first North Carolina, and the Twenty-sixth South Carolina Volunteers, from one position in Charleston
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