The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-01
THE SLAUGHTER OF CAROLINIANS AT
CHARLESTON


The New York Tribune of yesterday publishes
the following story, evidently made up in that
office:
A soldier who was drafted into the service of the
rebels in Charleston and who served at the guns in
Fort Moultrie, at the siege of Fort Sumter, has
made to the following statement. His reabil-
iy is vouched for, and we have every to be-
lieve that his statement is every way worthy OF
belief:
Our informant states that he served under Capt.
Havens, and went into Fort Moutrie the day after
Major Anderson left for Fort Sumter. He remained
three or four days after the tight. He belonged to
the artillery and served at the guns most of the time
during the siege. The guns of Fort Moultrie opened
about hafpast four in the morning, but Ma jor An
derson did not fire gun for near two hours after.
When he did open, his fire was rapid and destruc-
tive. The balls from Sumter struck the PORTFOLIOS
of Moultrie. and at nearly every discharge some
body was killed. Their places were supplied by
others. There were IN Moultrie more than one
thousand men, and between three and four hundred
were kept at the guns constantly. Not more than
that number could protect themselves in the case.
mates of sandbags, which, while they afforded ex-
ceent protection, much torn up and knocked
down. 1t was between nine and ten O'Clock on the
first day that the greatest loss of life occurred
The barbette guns of Fort Sumter were silenced
| early in the day, and the round shot from these
were most destructive TO Fort Moultrie, and ed
| the greatest loss of life. They fired with
great accuracy, and at times the scene in the fort
| four hundred killed. and large nrmber rere
| aoounded. The killed were collected 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 the men
| were horribly manged, aud others were scarcely
| dead when thrown into the boxes. Blood flowed
| in streams from these receptacleS, 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 remain.
In order that the truth should not be known in
Charleston, the soldiers charged to say that
nobody was hurt, and were threatened with certain
death if they disclosed the facts There were good
many killed in the dwellings outside the fort. The
| Moultrie House was very much damaged, and .
| large number Of buildings in the neighborhood of
the fort demolished. The officers quarters in the
fort riddled and it is the opinion of our in
formant that had there been three hundred men in
Sumter, Fort Moultrie would have been destroyed,
and the Rebels driven out or killed almost to a
man. He left Moutrie three days after the engage
ment, and went to Charleston. The people there
would not believe that nobody had been killed, and
made constant inquiry for their friends, who, they
were assured, were still on Sullivan's Island
Hundreds of families are yet to learn the truth
which is kept from them by the greatest vigilance
Our informant duly discharged from the
service, and, with five others, embarked board
the bark Smithsonian, Capt. Davis, which reached
New York on Friday morning last.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY KILLED AND WOUNDED ON
MORRIS ISLAND.
One Of the Charleston volunteers who was on
Morris Island during the late bombardment of
Fort Sumter, came here yesterday by the schooner
d. B. Pitts. He says that at least one hundred and
fifty men were killed and wounded at the batteries
on Morris Island by the canister of Maj. Anderson.
He had occasion to be at Fort Johnston also Just
before he left Charleston and there he learned that
| on Sullivans Island thirty-nine men had been
ki!ed-that a mortar had been blown from Fort
Johnston by shot from Sumter. He had to go to
| Charleston in a boat with some passengers, and
when there embraced the opportunity and slowed
himself away in the schooner and in that way got
| off. He says that the dead were all taken and
boxed and carried away in the night and buried in
| Potter's field, where the negroes are buried. He
says that thousands of negroes only want some OF
their leaders to give them the word, and great will
be the slauehte
HuRRAH FOR SAMBo.-We understand that col
ored company is being raised in this city to fight
| the Yankees. Wonder what the knaves will think
when they see these sable faces-all kindness and
affection towards us-turned upon them. We
think it capital idea to haze them properly Off
cered and sent to refute with bullets the stale
| ISLANDERS OF the bolitionists.-Lynchbur5 ptr-
ginian.
We are ahead of you. Ninety-four left this city
on yesterday for Norfolk, under command of Mr..
William Fem. Not only have they left, but when
the flag, presented by the ladies, was handed to
them, they said it should never be soiled but it
should triumphantly wave over the walls OF For
tress Monroe before they misunderstanding IN
teaigencer, April &c.
Col. Mansfield, Of the United States Engineers, is
now in command of the troops at Washington; his