Posted on 11/08/2023 6:16:47 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, Nov. 7.
The steamer Salvor arrived at this port to-day from Morris Island, and brings the most glorious intelligence.
She reports that she lay off Morris Island on Monday, the 2d inst., and left that night for Hilton Head.
On Saturday and Sunday a terrific bombardment was kept up on Fort Sumter by three of our monitors and by Forts Gregg and Wagner.
On Monday morning, while the Salvor lay off Hilton Head, Capt. O'NEIL, of the Invalid corps who conveyed a party of conscripts thither on her last trip, came on board and reported that news had been received by our military authorities there that Fort Sumter was in our possession and occupied by the One Hundred and Forty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers, the fort having been carried by assault.
The report was generally credited by our officers and men.
It is also stated that the United States steamer Fulton, had been ordered to lay off Hilton Head for twenty-four hours to convey the glorious intelligence to New-York.
The news was conveyed to Hilton Head by the United States steamer Golden Gate on Monday morning.
SECOND DISPATCH.
The steamer Salvor, Capt. MOTT, which has been engaged in the Government transport service, arrived at this port from off Charleston this afternoon, having left there three days ago.
Capt. MOTT reports that Fort Sumter had surrendered to the United States forces, and that the old flag, the glorious Stars and Stripes, now wave over the ruins of the rebel stronghold.
After the surrender of the Fort by the rebels, it was taken possession of by the One Hundred and Forty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers.
The beginning of the end has come.
The old flag has been restored on the very spot where it was first degraded.
The bogus Southern Confederacy is crumbling
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