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From Charleston.
The wires were don a this morning between
here and Charleston, and we have nothing late j
from our special correspondent.
Firing was heard in this city sll day yesterday
and passengers report that late in the evening I
it was more severe than before. Reinforeements i
were reaching Charleston from all quarters.
The Savannah Republican of this morning
contains the following:
Saturday morning, about daylight, the 7:h I
Connecticut Volunteers and the 76tn Penasylva- I
nta Volunteers, under the command of Brig. Gen i
Strong, attempted to carry by storm iiattery Wag- I
ner, on Moms’ Island, ne.r Charleston, S. C The i
enemy were met by the 13th Battalion Georgia '
Volunteers, Maj. Wm. 3. Bassinger; 12th Batta!- '
. icn Georgia Volunteers, Lieut. Col. Capers; a bat-1
fdhon ot tbe Ist Volunteer Regiment oi Georgia I
Col. Chas. H. 0 instead; and several companies I
of south Carolina Regulars. The battle raged 1
lonoualy for about len hours, iha ecemy being I
quickly repulsed in every advance. ;
An official dispatch states that the enemy’s
less in hthed was 25; the beach was strewn with
their dead. Or.e hundred and thirty prisoners i
were taken. These advanced to within a short i
distance ot our breastworks, and knowing that '
retreat was impossible, a large number lay hat on !
their faces before the works curing the tight, anu i
when it was over the precious scoundrels drew
from their pockets while flags aDd surrendered. '
Cl tcers we.e captured and five
killed.
On the third or fourth round of the enemy Ca-u. !
Claus Werner, of the German Volunteers', Ist i
Volunteer Regiment n! Georgia, was instantly |
in cd by a a.m.e btui tailing effect on the left ;
breast and passing inrough the bodv.
Intbeleth Battalion Georgia Volunteers,Mai :
W. 3. flassenger, the fcllowicg are the casual,
ties . Killed—Euward Fostell, Julian Alexander
Kannna, B. Malloy and James Bryan. Wound*
ed—Lieut. Frederics Topper, mime ball passing j
across ihe bteas’, Jesse llsmoLd, in the wrist; I
Bernaid Maguire, in shoulder. Ad tbe ISth Bata 1
talion Georgia Volunteers who v.o-re killed in the i
action were shot in the head.
Tbe body oi Capt. W emer, accomparied by Mr.
M. Meyer, of Cbark-aton, Oapt. Werner, brother
oi deceased, end Mr. A. Seydel, of the German
Volunteers, reached this city yesterday mornmg,
lor interment.
We are permitted by a tnend to make the fol
lowing extract from a letter received by him
dated Charleston, Juiy 11:
"1 he enemy made their lodgment on the South,
ern portion oi Morr.s* Island. Our troops suffer
ed severely yesterday, over 300 casualties occurs
nog. We have to regret the ioss ot Capt. Cheves,
ol me Engineers, and Capt. Haskell. Fort Wag.
ner is our Southern base of operations on Morns’ !
Island. It is situated shout me middle ol that |
island, and where it is so narrow that it is more
’.he character of an isthmus. 'i'Lis point the ece» :
my endeavored to cany at daybreak this morn. 1
log, with a lorce et about a,OOO men, under cum - !
maud of Gen. Strong. Our men allowed them to
approach and then poured destructive volleys
irro them. The repu.se was highly succesblul,
Ninetystire dead bodies at the c.ose ot the tight
b.rewed the ground in the vicinity of the eairendi
uients. One bundled and thirty-live prisoners
and many wottndtd were fcrcug'ht into the city.
Gen. Ripley estimates ska loss of the entmv at
500 put flora du ct-mbat. Four monitors have
teen pegging away at Fort Waguer, but without
ccing much damage, Fort Wanner eons.antiv
replying to them. Fiom tbe fact of one monitor
bavng retired this ulu rnoon, it is bei.eved she
must have been damaged.
Fobt Wagkee, Morris’ IftshD, )
July 11, ls«S. 5
Me. Editoe; We were attacked this morning
at daylight by a brigade cf the enemy, which was 1
repulsed with ihe loss of between fitty and two :
hundred killed and wounded, and about one hun
dred pribor.t-is.
Our own loss is very slight. In the Ist Regi
ment, Capt. Werner, of Co. I, was killed, and
i’rtvate Hancock sightly wounded in the hand.
The Guards (isth Battalion) bare lost tve killed
uud three wounded. Major iiasienger will send
list. The 12ib Battalion lost one killed and two
wounded. CB4M.es Id. Oumsteas,
Col. l.t Vol. Reg't Ga.
The News citlaine the following dispatch ;
CtURiESTOX, July 12,10 A. J!.—All quiet for!
the present. ’) he enemy are trying to erect ban i
ter es ol heavy guns on Middle Morris Island. j
From Gen- Lee's Army-
Accounts from the .ate battles m Pennsylvania
though still meagre art much more sal.a:setrry
than tlie that advices. A wounded officer ol
Wright's brigade gives the Richmond Die; ~ ch j
the following staleuent:
la ibr fight if Wednesday and Thursday we
whipped the enemy badly. On Friday the fight
again commenced, being chiefly done by our cen
tre, which was composed of L ingstreet’a corps
■ and two divisions <1 Gen. A. F. Hill’s corps
Neiihtr the right aor oil wmg was stnously en
gaged. Wo drove the enemy back live inoes to
me heights, which he htd lortined. In driving
them this five miles we broke through two ot
their lines ot ba’iie lormed to receive the oneet of
our troops, ur.d baaiiy charged them to the
heights. Here our men were ordered to charge
the heights, and the erder being executed result*
ed in our repulse.
On Friday night our wsgon trains were or
dered to tail back, and commenceu going to the
rear. It is supposed that our army tell back
irom w autos provisions. There was "no scarcity
of ammunition, fur there were many trains of
crdm-Bce out of which not a single cartridge or
shell had been taken. Some of them were at
tacked by tbe enemy, but Imboden’s cavalry suc
cessfully drove them ufl. Those ot our men who
were slightly woonded and could walk were sent
est Saturday about noon. Those who were ses
vereiy wounded were left in hospitals near the
battle-field.
In the fights of Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday, Gen. Lee took about 10,000 prisoners,
wno were promptly sent to tbe rear, end who,
our informant thinks, w ill reach Virginia safely.
Haring the same time we lost about 4,000 prison*
ere and about 11,uOO killed and wounded—mak
ing our loss 15,000 a all. The battle was Ihe
most furious that has taken place in this country,
and the losses of the enemy in killed and wound
ed must exceed ours. In the charge upon them
which drove them five miles, their loss, while
Bring before our troops, was enormous. Wright’s
brigade suffered severely. One of the regiments
which went into action with a Colonel, Lieuten
ant Colonel, and five or six Captains, came out
in charge of a .Second Lieutenant, the ranking
tficers having been either killed or wounded.
Onr informant save that our army fell back with
the greatest deliberation and order, to use bin
expression, “splendidly.” There was no demoral
ization. None of tits officers have any idea that
Gen. Lee initnds to re-cross the Potomac, nor has
that intention been even hinted at by the officers
commanding e,.rps. It was generally and dis
tine'ly understood that the falling back was caused
by the difficulty in obtaining provisions through
so long a line of communication as that from Get
tysburg to Williamsport, and no one in the army
believed that it was intended to evacuate Mary
land. The men were in good spirits, and ready 1
for another fight with the enemv.
The Potomac, when our informant crossed, was j
very high. It is proper to state that the officer i
from whom the above information was obtained j
was a very intelligent, cool, and deliberate per* '
son, and one not Ttkely to exaggerate any fact
which he might have learned.
We last u’ght conversed with two wounded sol
diers of Piokett’3 division, who left Gettysburg
et 12 o’oicck on Saturday. They report thut
Pickett’s division wsb with Lc-ngstreet in the cen
tre, on Friday, and participated in the charge
upon the heights. 'lhe charge resulted in a re
pulse, but nothing else. The enemy did not leave
his fortified heights to try a battle in the field
again that day. Oar two informants, who
were wounded, went back te their tents on the I
same ground they had occupied the night before I
and the next day at noon were sent off to Martina- j
burg. Thev say that in thefalling back of our army I
there was no straggling, and that it was doie in *
, excellent order. Skirmishing was going on when
1 they left at noon Saturday.
We were informed in an authentic quarter late
j last night, that a gentleman bad arrived in Rich
mond from Washington yesterday evening, who
left the latter city on Sunday night. He reports
j that the news received there un to that time was
decidedly unfavorable to the Federal arms, and
that a deep and manifest feeling of despondency
i pervaded the whole community in consequence
of the intelligence. Efforts were made to prea
| vent the information received by the authorities
. from going to the pubi c. Lntle confidence was
| felt !n the ability of Meade's army to prevent
! Lee’s advance on that city when be should at
j tempt it, and mnch anxiety was felt for the safe*
ty ot the city. No security was felt against its
I fall.
In connection with the above in reference to the
feeling in Washington we have the fact that
! Northern papers published since July 4th, have
not been permitted to come through our lines.
; A gentlemen who lived all the early part of his
life in Gettysburg makes the following statement,
! from which it will be seen how difficult it is to
j surround or cut off Gen. Lee:
Gettysburg lies Northeast of Baltimore 52 miles,
j fO from Washington on the road through Frede
i rick, which is Southeast Irom it a distance or J 2
; miles. There is a chain vs mountains lying on
j the West of and within S miles of Gettysburg
; on the West, extending South through Frederics
| county. If Gen. Lee fell back towards the Poto
| mac he had the advantage of these mountains, as
| a pursuing army would have to go around them !
(Southward through Frederick, or else be exposed !
| to the narrow passes of these monntains.
j A correspondent of the Dispatch writes as fcU j
! lows;
Martix'secrc, July 5,1563.
I The grsat battle :a the Ntrioern field of opera- j
I tions commenced on Wednesday, the Ist. Lcte ‘
ion that day Ewell and A. I’. H it attacked the j
j enemy at Gettysburg, Ewell leadiDg the right, j
' Hill tbit centre, and Early the left. Our forces I
} drove the enemy from the town that afternoon, j
;Oa Thursday the battle was renewed, amt the ,
: anemy WBS driven into his bre.stwoiks upon
some heights which he had secured. Thsfigtt
tng on Wednesday was severe, baton Thursday
not so lurivus. On Thursday *he report is the
enemy was htoviiv reinforced—some say by three
army corps. Ou Friday the light was renewed by
our troops attempting to storm the enemy’s
works. We succeeded, but were compelled to I
retire. Lee then, Fr.dav evening, changed his !
front, and moved behind the town of Gettysburg, ,
and on Saturday morning was in line ol battle, ,
expecting a renewal of the engagement.
A train ofwagous belonging to Longstreet was !
on yesterday attacked by the enemy ai Green- '
castle, and a large number captured with their
.learns. It is strange to me that a single wagon
j should reach our army. They have been going
sometimes without an escort, and when guarded
; the number of soldiers is too small for defence,
| aud too large for a procession. Tbe pontoon
bridge at failing Water, over which our trains
passed, was attacked aud broken up by some
iorly Yankee cavalry, and there was not even -
guard at the place as I iearr. Attention to such
-.mall matters may be irksome, but their neglect
leads to consequences disastrous in the extreme.
Some of the wounued just in say that McClellan j
is in command of tlie euemy.
1 he Enquirer of tbe 10th says:
Five wounded office: a reached this city jestf
day evening, who ielt Gettysburg oa Saturday i
nigh! last.
They report our army in most excellent conai- !
tion, Tbe heaviest tight was on Friday last, when j
we attacked the enemy, driving them front their!
heights and chastising them severely. After '■
holding the position for some hours, Lee again (
fell buck to his original position un tbe heights, i
retaining possession ot Gettysburg. During the j
! day same ot our badly wo’unded fell into tve I
: sands of the enemy and were not recuveicd. ,
Tuerc was no genetul engagement on Saturday, j
The present reported bevdquaiters of Gen. Lee j
is 09 miles from Washington ; Gettysburg, from |
winch he is said io have retreated, is 75 miles i
from Wa-hington, Irom which it appeals that j
Gen. Lee has retreated six miles nearer to Wash* j
ington city.
At the time of writing these lines we have re» i
ceived nolling official frvtp Gen. Lee; but we
were never mure confident ilia! he has been able |
.-.ot •sly io io •crsifnliy meet the enemy, but that!
I Lis present a,t erect barlwar i movement is u .'. \
j ihe consequence of any defeat inflicted by the i
enemy. It may ln.v e been occasioned by the ne« :
I ces- ty to convoy his ambulance trains or to meet j
1 his uiduanct wagons. .Some good and sufficient ,
reason exists, aud all wilt he right when he is !
heard from.
The W big of th.: 10th says ;
Last night the I'resideai received a dispatch j
from the command-nt of the post at Martiasourg. I
which was in the highest degree cheering. 11l
| stated that General Lee had u.en victorious .a
every engagement with th enemy, and had fallen
hick to Hagerstown simply tba; he might put
across the Potomac his irouuded and prisoners,
both of whom were numerous.
(Jur forces were entrenching themselves on the
hills aronnd the town.
for Ihe ConstUutionatiat.
Mr. Barnes' reply to my former article throws [
the responsibility for the insane policy developed I
■ o his letter to Estes A Clark of his superior offi
cers. Be it so. With him, personally, I have un j
controversy. Bull would like to be informed
w.co tbi man it, that, without any law ol Congress
to sustain him, has undertaken to do what no
government on earth ever did, or ever can do—
put down speculation by prescribing prices.
“S chmond is driving at” an exposure of this ex»
periment. I suspect Mr. Barnes is the only in*
teiligeni reader of my article, who fouad my put *
pose “beyond his comprehension.” A muen
greater man than the autnor ot this erder, who
ever he may be, once entertained a similar pro
ject. 7hs first Napoleon, when in tbe zenith of
ot his power, took it into bis head to regulate pri
ces by law, and called on the leading banker
m Paris fur his advice as to the details, “ffire,"
said Lafitte, “these matters are beyond even
your power. Your majesty must leave them to
us.” Our Solomons in trade would do well to
follow the example of the great Empe
ror, who had the good sense to be persuaded
that prices would, and must find the.r own level,
in spite even of it* decrees. However bad the
state of the market may be, official interference
awrys maim it werst.
Mr. Barnes eays be has nothing to do with our
market, as Richmond connty is out of his jurisdic
tion. Mr. Barns* is not the man I strike at. The
original author of this unauthorued order is re
ponsible for the usurpation, and for its conse
quences. The instructions, under which Mr.
Barnes act 3 were understood, long before his
letter appeared, to prevail through the State; and
consequently, the trade in grain was stopped.
The fact that, on a crop of unusual abundance,
flour may te iower than it wa3 before the crop
was ascertained, does not affect tbe question.
a.virnment ffierrt (not tke ffottrnmtnt) stop all
sales ol wheat above four dollars a bushel, end
families baying for their own use only, find
difficulty :n getting (flour at fifty dollars a barrel
—equal to ten dollars a bushel'for wheat. This!
lis cooking down speculation with a vengeance,
i Let us fairly understand this matter. In the
1 first place, (Jhr Government has no more antbor
j itv to make this regu ation than it has to pre*
i scrtbe the number of hours in twentysfour that
1 infants mav sleep.
Secondly, if it had the authority, it has no snore
power to enforce it than it has to mike water
run up bill in an open ditch; and,
Thirdly, Government has attempted no such ;
thing. Mr. Baruee lays he "simply obeys” Lie .
laws of the Confederacy. TUri is no Uw au’bor- I
izmg this action. It is the mere ipsa dixit of some
subordinate official—nobody knows who—who, J
without any authority, unfortunately has power,
for the moment, to rum our grain and fl. ur mar.
ket—and ha las done it. Richeovd.
i
j A man named Mosely, a brick-layer from Nash
ville, formerly, I believe, a quartermaster in the
Yankee army,"was brought in the other day under
.1 uard. He is regarded with suspicion,
g
From the K comonu Enquirer.]
t 1 NTEREKTLNG DETAILS OF THE BATTLES ;
NEAR GETTAbBURG-LlfeT OF hILLED,
VVOITDED. AC.
Winchester, Vi., July 8,1863.
The army of Northern Virginia crossed the
Potomac by wading at or near WilPamspon,
trom thence they marched to UagerEtown, to
Greencastie, and thence to Chambersburg. Swell,
who held the advance, went as far as Carlisle,
some twelve miles from Harrisburg. Meantime,
Hooker having withdrawn his forces from Staf
ford, moved them to and across the Potomac, and
took np a line extending from Washington to
Baltimore, expecting Gen. Lee to offer him battle
in Maryland. Finding himself disappointed in j
this and having been compelled by pride or his |
superiors, he relinquished his command to Meade, ■
who, finding cut tnat Lee had defected in his j
march thrmiga Pennsylvania, and was moving |
down the Baltimore turnpise from Ctambers
burg, moved from Baltimore on the same read to
meet him. The two armies, which had ceased to
confront each other since the creaking up of the
Fredericksburg lines, fcund themselves, however,
again face to face, near Gettysburg, on Wednes*
day, July Ist. Early in the day skirmishers were
thrown forward by Gen. A. F. Hill, who had the
advance on '.he pike leading from Chambersbnrg.
About 1 P. M., a battle began in earnest be
tween lleade’s and Reynolds’ corps of the Norths
ern Potomac army, and a large bcdv, it is said, I
of Pennsylvania and New Tork militia, under j
Gen. Meade, and A. P. Hill’s corps, who held his
line .mniediaiely in front of town. Scon after A. !
P. Hill became engaged, Ewell, wiih Early and 1
• Rhodes' divisions, moved down from Carlisc, and j
i took up a position to the left of Hill’s corps, and j
somewhat to tiye Southwest of Harrisburg. The
battle raged furiously ter about two hours, when
the Yankee line gave back some 4 tr uss, passing
through and below Gettysburg, we occupying the
iuwa and rapturing their wounded, some thirty
five hundred m namoer, and also a .urge cumber
oi armed prisoners—these latter being captured,
1 leara, by Dwell. Thus the fight closed cur Wed
nesday, with a S'gnal advantage to us.
j On Wednesday night the enemy were heavily I
reintorced, and tock'up a strongly fortified poii- !
tiou on a series of very elevated bills in th; rear i
oi Gettysburg. From these hills an effort was |
made by u«, bu! unsuccessfulty, to dislodge them j
ou Thursday, the 2d. Thr fight was begun and j
| mainly contested on tbe right by Hood's and
I McLatvs’divisions of Lorgstreei’s corps. Gee.
| L-, with his forces, having reached the field at*
| ier the close of the tight on Wednesday. Ewell
■ was also engaged during this day on ihe extreme
I ieit with the enemy, who afiemp’.ed to turn his
! extreme right—our extreme left—by moving in
| upon him from above, between Gettysburg and
i Curlisle ; but in this they were successfully re
pulsed. The centre, under Gen. Hill, on ihiß
day held its ground firmly. Gen. Locgstreet, on
the right, succeeded on this day in driving tuern
m on the right to a distance ot fully a mile.
The results of this days fighting cannot be said
to have been, by any mesne, a decided success to
us. That they lost heavily cannot be gainsaid,
but their uosition, naturally a very strong one,
was held by not ie.-s than four lines of inlantry, j
and every spot available lor artillery bristled ;
. with the enemy’s carnou. Our men actually got i
j the fortifications once or twice, but so thinned
were their ranks by the losses they had sustain
!ed that they weie compelled to give oack. The
field was literally strewn with the dead and dy
-1 leg Yankees, and no slight sprinknug of out
i btave tit-fenders mixed with them,
i l'i.e fight for the possession of the heights was
1 renewed again on Friday. Meantime, Gen. Pick- ,
: t-tt’s division o! Gen. Long.-treet’s turps had re» ,
:nforced our right, and was printipaily engaged, I
with most disastrous loss of officers and men in
this duy’s work—Gen. Pickett himself being re
ported wounded, and three brigadiers, Arm .stead,
Garnett and Kemper, being killed. A. P. Hill
was also warm.y and successfully engaged du
! ring this day, but I am net able to speed as to
the results which he achieved. Doubtiess, they
were brilliant, for he has a noble corps, and his
corps are proud of their leader. Whether Ewell
was engaged to any large degree-in Friday, I j
am rt t advised.
The results of the three days’ fights may be i
j summed np to immense losses - n both sides: but j
’ in the last two days’ encounters we were unable
0 carry ihe heights beyond and below Getlys
. burg. The consequence was, that en Friday
I night our troops fell back sc me two r.- ~s, evucu
| a ting Gettysburg, and forming our ... of battle i
j still some two rn.ies ia auv-uca ot he p s.titm
! which we held at ihe opening of tbs light on
] Vfe!colony evening.
1 >n Saturday morning our wagon trains were
brought out in sight of the enemy, as also >ur
’ ambulance trains, and mured off iu .he d.ree’.ion
j >f Chamberaonrg. It is also skid that we moved
j our hues back some distance duriog Saturday
nigtn, and that on Sand iy the enemy pressed for- j
■ ward eagerly, whet Eeeii, wjo had -opareniiy (
fatten back, out wh - had, ia reality, aid in the
rocas near cis oiu position, passed in their rear, !
/.tat beyond Gettysburg and >uwards the enemy’s j
id position tayi.ud the town, and made prisoners J
< hity-tbree regiments. This, I must say, ia un
confirmed.
Our loss Las been most serious, especially in i
ueneiuland field officers, and largely m men. ;
General Pendens wounded severely but not dans j
: gerouely. General Hood uad his felt arm struck
I.v a ball, but win be abie tosave it. General)
j noth is wouudea slightly—he is here, as is also
! u■ uerui Pender. Gsn. G. T. Anderson .s wound
’ed in the fleshy part of 1.-g—he is here. Gen. R.
J. famines, wounded through femeral artery, but
uot dangerously—he had a tourniquet and applied
it at once. Genera! Jenkins (of Cavalry) is wound
ed .n head and is here. General Scales is wounds
ed and here, but uo: severely, I mink. General |
Pettigrew is reported wounded, hut not here. I
Ot serai J. M. Jones is wounded, but I .earn not j
severely. Genera. Wada Hampton, reported !
wounded, but cot here. Gen, Trimble is aiso
mid to be wounded in leg, and will, it is reported,
lose it.
The following field officers have been either
killed or wounded :
Col Thomas, Bth Ga, wounded.
Col Mounger, ‘Jib Ga. killed.
Col Brown, o'.*:b Ga, wounded.
Major Gee, Ga, wounded.
Coi Carrington, 18th Va, wounded, reported 1
since dead.
Col LieSaasure, S C, killed.
Col Kennedy, S C, wounded.
Co! E C Edmunds, 38th Va, killed.
Lieut Col Whittle, 38th Va, wounded.
Coi H R Miller, 42d Miss, killed.
Col Carter, 13th Miss, kilted.
Col Holder, 17th Miss, wounded.
Coi Henry Gault, 19th Va, badly wounded,
Coi Ellis, Va, reported killed.
Col Eppa Hunton, reported wounded.
Col Stuart, 56th Va, wuunded.
Col L B Williams, Va, reported killed.
Col W T Poiton, Va, wounded, in enemy’s
bands.
Col Jones, 20th Ga., killed.
Coi Allen, 29th Va, killed.
L eut Col McElory, I3th Miss, wounded.
Lietii Col Feagan,' '.sth Ala, .eg amputated.
Adjutant General Magruier, of Gen Joe Daviß’
brigade, killed.
Col Gnner, 61st Va, reported killed.
Muj Berkeley, Va, wounded.
Maj WII3OII, 28th Va, killed.
Lieut Col Fiser, 17th 3Lsp, slightly wrinded. j
Maj Bradiy, 13ih Miss, reported wouudea.
Lieut Col Luce, 18lh Miss, mtssing.
Adjutant Campbell, 43th M:.;s, killed.
Adjutant Goohlett, 18th Miss, badly wounded.
Coi J B Weems, 10th Ga, wounded.
. Maj St John and Lieut Col Hardwick, of 48th
Ala, are wounded.
1 t'-legraphed you yesterday, what has since
been confirmed, viz : That Stuart had captured
somo hundred wagons and a thousand to twelve
I hundred mules. He went within three miles of
Georgetown, near enough to see the steeples of
.he churches.
The enemy’s cavalry made a dash at our pons
. toons at Williamsport, ou Saturday last, and suc
- - ceeded ia burning them. We had a guard, it is
■ said of one hundred men over them, but unarm
ed.
The Potomac being past fording, and we hav
■ ing only two or three boats, it is quite a slow
business'. It has been raining for two weeks,
r and the Potomac will scarcely be down under a
week.
Our wounded are coming :n daily, Borne 2,000 I
j having thus far arrived. A large number of
wounded have walked the enure distance from j
tbe ba’tie-field, and the accommodations which I
greet them are not of a character to refute the
prevalent idea es the ingratitude ot republics.
Thus far the more siightiy injured have only ar
rived.
The route from here to the army is by no means
a safe one. The Yankee cavalry attacked onr
trains on Sunday near Preencaste, Pa., bet were
driven off, after a shert fight by Imboden. Sol
diers are only permitted lo leave here for the
army in large bodice, and citizens are not per
mitted to go on any account.
When the cavalry of the enemy dashed at onr
j ambulances near Greencastie, Sunday, the citi
: zsns sallied forth and cut np several of our wag
; ons. When our cavairv had driven the enemy
| away, these gentry were found, arrested, and will
be dulv cared for.
It was reported here yesterday even'ng, by a
gentleman jest from the vicinity of Sbarpsburg,
that Fitz Lee’s brigade came up with a body of
Yankee cavalry, wlrch tad fallen upon a wagon
train of ours, near that place, and. alter a sharp
fight, drove them off and capiured 200 prisoners.
I hear from good authority that we have lost
some one hundred wagons, which the enemy have
succeeded in capturing Irom us
j Gtn. Archer, of our side, has been captured,
! and we have taken General Graham.
I We have lest but few prisoners.
There was a brisk light at Williamsport on ( '
I Monday evening, between Gen. Jones and the i
enemy’s cavalry, artillery and infantry. The
tight lasted two hours, and the Yankees were i
I driven off.
j The l-.ne of battle at Gettysburg reached over j
j a field fully six miles long. It said many oi I
the dead Pennsylvania miiitia were found with j
their rifles by their siues.
Taylor's Hotel is used t 3 a Yankee hospital. It i -
seems to be quite full, and several of the surgeons
are here with them.
Our army is certainly now »t Hagerstown,
j Boons boro’, end Frederick, Md., and seem to be
|on tbe route to Baltimore. My own impression !
1 is that the great battle of the war will be fought j
| at or near the Relay House, the pr’zes at stake j
j being nothing less than Baltimore and Washing- j
| ton.
i Our forces did not retire from Gettysburg until
fully 12 hours after the enemy had abandoned
end moved fully away from his entrenched posi
tiou ; our men having gone through and through
them. They are said to be ol the most extensive
and impregnable characler.
Tbe positions which the enemy held at Gettys
burg in (he last two days' batiles were quite tm« \
pregnable, and Gen. Lee has done wisely in ,
changing his base and forcing the euemv to meet
him in a lairer field. There is also another rea- |
eon assigned for our change of position, but for
prudential reasons I will withhold it.
There has been no geuerai engagement since
Sunday, and all ihe rumors of our successes since
tbtu ore, yeu may rely upon it, uuloouded.
It is quite true that the enemy have reoccupisd
Maryland Heights, but they have not as yet, 1
I think, attempted a foothold on the Virginia side,
i Reports from the army aii concur that the spirit |
i of the men is invincible, and that they are nothing ,
dampened by the late Revert battles, in which !
our loss cannot, I think, fall far snort oi ten j
thousand; scute two thousand of these ire now ■_
here.
Geuerals Heth,Scales, Pender, G. T. Anderson, ‘
and Jenkins, are here, ana well cared (or. Gen. i
; Setmnes is said to be at Mart insbtirg. A good j
i number of the wounded have gone on up the !
i Valley. Just here let tne ask where are your !
‘•Richmond Committees for our wounded?" i
Their labors have been valuable in the past, and !
ought not to be abated now. Tms campaign is I
not over, and Winchester is :he point for them. I
Since my letter of vesterday, 1" have obtained I
from the registry at Ihe Receiving Hospital, tbe I
folowing additional list of wounded field and |
stuff officers :
Major Morris, 7th Lt.
Adjutant Orr, sth La
! Major Breaks, 20th NC.
j Lieut Col Moseley, 43d Miss.
! Major Finney, 47th Miss.
Mu.or Cobb, 44th Va.
Co! Ligbtfoot, 6th A'n.
Major Culver, 6th Ala.
Col Little, 11th Ga.
! Major Jonc3, Dili Ga.
I Col Hint' u>, Uth NO.
Co) W J Hoke, Jsih N C.
Lieut Col Ash tori, S3th N’ C.
Ai'j.i ant R'ddick, 34th X C.
Coicnel B..rion, Phillips' Leg; n.
Major Dawson, 8-h. Ga.
Co. ireinms, :3d Ga.
Major G lleite, 13th Va Cavalry.
| Col Withers, 42d Va.
I Adjutant Stewart, 3ri Vi.
j Adjutant Alexander, id G».
j Burgeon Fry, 16th NC.
| Lteut Col GordoD, 34tli NC.
| Adjutant Grem, iltli Ga.
j The battle heid occupied by us is re; resented
! to have been cn a plain, and our severe loss is
! attributed to the fact that we hud to charge over
; tins long plain, which was c >mplet«ly command
j ed by tne enemy’s guns and up the steep hills.
And yet this was accompt'sm d, and hut for
j our tb.lined ranks, it is taid, we could have
held the fortifications into which we certainly
at one time entered.
The proporuon of wounded is much greater
than in anv previous fight of ’.he war. Our loss
iu killed is small compared with the wounded.—
Our loss in prisoners it is thought will reach at
least three thousand.
j It is reported that we lost some of onr wonnded
! in the cbaDge of base, but ueyoud this 1 think
! Gen. Lee has not been hurt,
j The great lobs of general, field and staff officers
f was unavoidable, on account of our position be
ing so well cumuiunded and, indeed, raked by tbe
enemy’s batteries and not because ol any necessi
ty to expose ihtmseives in order to gei the troops
forward; lcr all concur that the men never fought
better or charged harder and faster.
SOUTH CAROLINA,
Tub Attack on Charleston.—The attack on
| Charleston (says the Richmond Examiner) is the
direct and immediate consequence of a dispatch
from Cooper to Gen. Lee. which was captured by
the enemy. In this dispatch there was talk of
an army to be concentrated at Culpeper Court
House under Beauregard. The sudden activity ol
Rosecrans aDd other Federal Generals are tie re
sult of that dispatch. The enemy has got tis head
Inil of the idea that Ihe Coufederacv fiaa placed
all his best f rees and Generals und :r Lee, leav.
ing the rear to take care ot itself. Especially
is he convinced that Charleston is denuded of
troopw, and tnat Beauregard is ".way. Hence he
has ordered an immediate attack, end wiil, with
out doubt, exhaust his powers io get possession
of that long coveted point —they will be disap
pointed in their bep s—they will not lake Chars
lesion—and Ih-y will get a thru; hing,
They have larded forces ou the ore end of
Morns’ Island—a strip of sea-made land between
Fort Sumter and the ocean. They might have
done as much at any timo within the last two!
years. The onlv part of the Island possessing j
- the least importance is the Northern portion of
it. Ou that portion of it we have some of the
heaviest works defend.ug Charleston, fn hese
work 3 we have resolute men, who wiil certainly
maintain them.
Granting that, with heavy assaults, the con
centrated fire of ihe fleet, and Ihe employment of
barges in the night, they take Morris' Island, ft
is Buppos-d that they have nothing then to Uo
but batter Sumter to pieces. But there ure 1,400
yards of weter between the nearest point of the
Island and the walls ol Sumter, and no wells
constructed, well defended fortress goes down
before batueries at that distance. When there is
firm land for parallels, and batteries can heaps
proached til I they are within 606 yards, as they
were before Pulaski, it is but a question ot time
when a place shall fall But parallels cannot be
made in the water, and the guns of Sumter com
mand Morris’ Island.
But what if Sumter should be reduced to a
heap of ruins? Is Charleston lost? Certainly
not. That fort is not the key of Charleston.
Many an iron-clad will go to the bottom, and
many a ship load of Yankees will be sent to the
devil, .before the final struggle wiU be even be-
I gun. In Charleston there is a General who
i knows all his business. We hope that it is not
(giving ihe enemy too much information to an
nounce that bis name is Beauregard, aud that he ,
has with him a certain number of troops. To
gether they will defend Charleston to the lasi
extremity, as in duty bound. Whether the place
is impregnable or not, is the question now to be
tried. We hold that it Is!— Cottrvr.
Fbom Mobbib’ Island.— The exchange of shots
between the Yankee gunboats and our batteries
on Tuesday was kept up at long intervals until
the afternoon, when the firing became more rapid.
Fort Sumter continued'to throw shells with effect
at the Yankee working party on Craig’s Hill. An
officer f. om Battery Wagner, who arrived last
night, reported the enemy throwing up rifie pits
and entrenchmenta.
Their working parties are p'ainly visible both
on Craig’s Hill and Black’s Island. Four mortar
boats were observed for the first time Tuesday
beside the channel, one of them seemingly placed
| in a position to cover their working parties. The
Monitors, .four in number, were lying close in
shore, apparently receiving a fresh supplv of am
munition. An additional number of transports
are reported to have arrived Tuesday.
There were no casualties at the batteries yestera
day.— Mercury.
The Mercury, alluding to the defence of that
city, says:
Although there is cause for anxiety concerning
the preservation of Charleston, there is in our
situation no real ground yet for despondency. We
believe Charleston can be saved by prompt, sold
and manly efforts, and that it ought to be saved.
The motive lor exertion on the part cf our
suldiers are as grea* as can stimulate the human
breast to deeds of daring and heroi .m. The
reputations of all the officers charged with ihe
defence of this important point, arc uneqnivoe
cally at staki. The eyes of the whole Confede.
racy are now concentrated here. We have troops
competent to any task of difficulty and danger.
We have officers tit to lead such troops. The
three brigades of Yankees in this Department,
ami unting to some eight thousand, cannot sties
ceed in their bold undertaking, with any display
of courage and skill and energy on out part. If
we be only equal to tbe occasion, all will yet be
well. Then 10 the rescue!
The prisoners captured on Saturday, arc rep
resented by tbe Mercury as not Tery communi
cative. The following facts, however, have been
gleaned from ineir concurrent statements : Four
| companies of the 7th Connecticut were thrown
out as skirmishers, supported by the 76ih Penns
! sylvunia, !Kh Maine and 88th New York Iteg’ts.
: The four companies of the 7th Connecticut Lad
200 men, the ir.b Maine from SCO to SOU, and the
! 76th Pennsylvania 750. No one knew much in
! regard to the 4stn New York. There wereouly
two regiments left on St. Helena Island, the 54th
Massachusetts and 2d Kegmient of South Caro
lina negroes, both black regiments. There were
on Folly Is and two Ohio, three Pcnnsy'vania
and some New York regiments, besides others
I whose State was no*, known to the prisoners.
Only the llth Maine Regiment was at Fernandma,
aud only one regiment was at St. Augustine. The
i Yankees have tour light batteries upon Folly
! Island, natuxfy: Ist U. S. Battery, Hamilton's
! !iat!err--s Connecticut Batteiy and tbe 3d Rhode
1 IsijXfßattery. Folly Island is strongly fortified.
have the guns and mortars il3-incb) which
I weie used in the redaction of Fort Pulaski.
! The 6!b and sth Maine, with two other regis
i menis, left Folly Island on Friday for Secessions
| v.lle.
I The prisoners captured on Friday lake their
! departure this morning for RichD.ond, under
l guard of a detachment of fifty men of company I,
1 Captain Bythewood, Sixteenth Regiment.
! T! Courier gives the following occouat of
| Mondays' work:
| The sloop of war Bbb nnd tine gunboat steams
I ed up about eleven o’clock Monday morning and
; opened lire nn Battery Wagner. They took ihetr
' positions at long taw, firing about eveyv fiitaen
I minutes, which was kept up at ‘intervals until
about five in the afternoon. They failed to effect
! anything. One large transport got aground in
1 Foliy Inlet. Some of the gunboats came to her
assistance, but had had not succeeded in ge'ting
I her off up to dark. The three Monitors, which
| were lying behind a point near the lower end of
Morris’ Island, kept very quiet throughout the
j day. Our batteries (Gregg and Wagner) and
\ Fort Sumter responded slowly and at
long intervals to the enrmy’e foe. One shot in
reported to have struck the oormy’s Observatory,
! cr .'. ited on Crtig’s Hill, Morns’ Island.
' The Yankees have an immense derrick and are
: reported piecing more gms in position, h rtifj-mg
Craig's 11.11 and also Black's Island, between
i M irris and James' Islands, of which they ate re«
ported in possess. >n.
i The following is a list of tbe casuai’tes in the
' Seventh S. C. Battalion on Sunday, July 12th,
!,» Col. Nels Ml commando g :
' Killed—N. S. Daniels. Wounded—Sergeant
! Braiee, Lt. Pearson, commanding Corarany C.
S. Wahuks Nelson,
Adjutant Seventh S. C. Battalion.
1 be fire of the enemy waa renewed about eight
o’c.ock last evening. The steamer Gabriel Mania
gault mentioned in our issue of yesterday, as dis
abled, was set on fire by the enemy’s shells
and destroyed.
The Escape of Gen. Wright.
P. W. A. gives the following account of the
escape of Oeu. Wright, a version of which we
published from the Herald, on yesterday :
General Wright, of Georgia, came near being
captured last week in the vicinity of Starpsburg.
Tbe division to which his brigade is attached,
fAnderson's, of Hill’s corps,) bad crossed at
Shepfcerdstown and gone into camp near Sharps*
berg. Wright was ordered to move his camp
some three miles farther up the Ant’etam to a
small village, and being unwell he went out to
select his camp and to rest, being accompanied
i by his son, who lost a leg at the second .Manas*
' sas. and two couriers. Upon reaching the vilw
| lage be was attacked by a squad of Federal cav
alrv, dress’d In Confederate uniforms, who fired
upon him and his party at a few paces distant,
bnt, strange to aay, without effect. Tae General
finally effected his escape, owing to the superior
speed of bis horse, but his son, who could Dot
control hiß horse so well, fell into the bauds of
the enemy.
Col. S. W. Watt 9, commanding the 10th regia
ment N C. militia, in Mai ia county, reports to
tbe Adjutant General that he assembled the men
of his regiment for enrollment at Williamston, on
the 6th inst, under the requisition of tbe Presis
dent. Early in the morning tbe enemy from Ply
mouth advanced upon tbe t”wn, both by land and
water, aDd, after Bring a number of shells, the
town was burned.
Kentucky.
| Mohgan Again Heard From. —Couriers report,
and it is also reported by telegraph fiotn Morris
town, that John Morgan, with his command, has
j captured Lexington, Ky. Gen. Carter, of East
Tennessee, is reported mortally wounded.
£’noac. Rtg.
Gen. Echols.— The Richmond Dispd'.ch says
that Brig. Gen. Echols, A Gen. Jones’ division,
in Western Virginia, has resigned, in consea
quence of ill-health. He has served with useful
ness and distinction from the beginning of the
war. He accompanied Jackson in his celebrated
Valley campaign, and was severely wounded at
the battle of Kernstown. By his resignation the
service loses an officer and gentleman both ac*
complished and popular.
The Supreme Court of Georgia is now in ses*
sion in Atlanta.
An officer down the M ibile and Ohio Railroad
reports that twenty transports with a portion of
Grant’s troopc went up the Mississippi aft#f
the fall of Vicksburg,