The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-05-09
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From tho N. Y. Tribune of Tuesday
Slaughter of Rebels in Fort Moul-
trio-Between 800 and 400 Kill
ed---A Large Number Wounded.

From tho N. Y. Tribune of Tuesday.
| ISlaughter of Rebels in Fort MouI-
! trio-Between 800 and 400 Kill
! ed---A Large Number Wounded
A soldier who was drafted into the
service of the rebels in Charleston, and
who served at the guns of Fort Moul
trie, at the siege of Fort Sumptor, has
made to us the following statement
His reliability is vouchcd for, and we
have every reason to believe that his
statement is in every way worthy Of
belief.
Our informant states that he served
under Capt Havens, and went into Fort
Moultrio the day after Major Anderson
left Fort Sumptor He belonged to the
| Artillery, and served at the guns most
Of the time during the siege The guns
Of FortMoultrio opened at half. past four
in the morning, but Major Anderson
did not fire a gun for near two hours
after. When he did open, the fire was
rapid and destructive
The balls from Sumptcr struck the
PORTFOLIOS of Moultrie, and at nearly
every discharge somebody was killed.
Their place were supplied by others.
There was in Moutrie more than one
thousand men, and between three and
four hundred were kept at the guns con-
stantly. Not more than that number
could protect themselves in the case
ments of sandbags, which, while they
afforded excellent protection, we're much
torn up and knocked down. 1t was be-
tween nine and ten o'clock on the first
day that the greatest loss Of life occur
red.
The barbcsto guns of Fort Sumptor
were silonced early in the day, and the
round shot from these were most de-
structive to Fort Moultrie, and caused
the greatest loss of life. They were
fired with great accuracy, and at times
the scene in the Fort was terrible. Du-
ring the siege bci10een three and four hun-
dred 1gcrc EWcd, and large number
igere 10oundcd The killed were collec-
ted together in a mass, and at night
placed in boxes, brought down from
Charleston and taken away to Potter's
Field and inferred during the night
Some of them were horribly mangled,
and others were scarcely dead when
thrown into the boxes. Blood flowed
in streams from these rcccptacles, and
the sight was horrible. The surgeon at
the Fort sent for help, and others came
down from Charleston. The wounded
were removed to the Hospital, where
such as have not since died, now re-
main.
In order that the truth should not be
known in Charleston, the soldiers we're
charged to say that nobody was hurt,
and were threatened with certain death
if they disclosed the facts. There were
a good many killed in the dwellings out
side the Fort. The Mouluie House
was very much damaged, and a large
number of buildings in the neighbor-
hood of the fort demolished The Off
GERS quarters in the fort were riddled,
and it is the opinion Of our informant
that had there been three hundred men
in Sumptcr, Fort Moultrie would have
been destroyed, and the Rebels driven
out or killed almost to a man. He left
Moultrio three days after the engage
ment, and went to Charleston. The
people there would not believe that no
body had been killed, and made con-
slant inquiry for their friends, who,
they were assured were still on Sulli-
vans Island. Hundreds Of families are
yet to learn the truth, which is kept
from them by the greatest vigilance
Our informant was duly discharged
from the service, and, with five others,
embarked on board the bark Smithso-
nian, Capt. Davis, which reached New
York on Friday morning.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY KILLED AND
WOUNDED on NORRIS ISLAND
One of the Charleston Volunteers who
was on Morris Island during the late
bombardment of Fort Sumpter, came
here yesterday by the schooner ID. p.
Pitts. He says that at least one hun
dred and fifty men were killed and
wounded at the batteries on Morris
Island, by the canister Of Major Ander-
son. He had occasion to be at Fort
Johnston also just before he left Charles
ton, aud there he learned that on Sulli-
vans Islane thirty-nine men had been
a mortar had been blown
from Fort Johnston by shot from Sum
ter. He had to so to Charleston in a
boat with some passengers and when
there embraced the opportunity and
slowed himself away in the schooner,
aud in that way got off, He says the
dead we're all taken and boxed and car
red away in the night and buried in Pot
ter's Field, where the negroes are bur
led He says that thousands of negroes
only want some Of their leaders to give
them the word, and great will be the
slaughter.