Posted on 09/12/2023 5:31:39 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
FORTRESS MONROE, Thursday, Sept. 10.
The steamer New-York, Capt. CHISHOLM, arrived to day from Morris Island.
Capt. CHISHOLM reports that he left at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Morris Island had been completely in our possession since Sunday.
We captured 21 guns and 75 men.
Two monitors and the Ironsides were besieging Fort Moultrie when the New-York left.
It was reported that we had blown up the magazine in Moultrie.
WASHINGTON, Thursday, Sept. 10.
Col. EDWARD E. POTTER, Chief of Staff, telegraphed from Fortress Monroe to-day to Gen. HALLECK that when on Tuesday afternoon Capt. CHESHOLM, of the steamer New- York, left Charleston harbor, the rebel flag was still flying at Fort Sumter, but no guns were mounted, and only a very small force remained there.
Five monitors and the Ironsides engaged Batteries Beauregard and Bee from 5 A.M. until 2 P.M. on Tuesday, the 8th. A shell from one of the monitors exploded in the magazine of Fort Moultrie, and the southwestern parapet was seriously damaged by the explosion.
WASHINGTON, Thursday, Sept. 10.
The following was received here this after-noon:
DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, HEADQUARTERS IN THE FIELD, Sept. 7, 1863. }
Major-Gen. H.W. Halleck, General-in-Chief:
GENERAL: I have the honor to report that Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg are ours. Last night our sappers crowned the crest of the counterscarp of Fort Wagner on the sea front, masking all its guns; and an order was issued to carry the place by assault at 9 o'clock this morning, that being the hour of low tide.
About 10 o'clock last night the enemy commenced evacuating the Island, and all but 75 of them made their escape from Cummings Point in small boats.
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*Too long to prep for posting. If you want to read Sen. Sumner’s speech you can probably view it via this link => https://archive.org/details/ourforeignrelati00sumnrich
I couldn’t find it in NY Times archives for this date, but here’s the Times Machine edition for that date => https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1863/09/11/issue.html
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