Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-04-23

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confirms the intelligence we had from
Southern sources of the surrender of Fort
Pulaski, at the mouth of the Savannah
river, and thus opening the city of Savan-
nah to the approach of the national forces.
Gen. Hunters despatch was brief and in
the following words:
PoRT ROYAL. SOUTH CAROLINA, !
0ia So'ady Hook, n, J., Apl l6, 1862. !
Hon. Edward NJ. Stanton. Secretary of War.
We opened our batteries on Fort Pulaski
on the morning of the 10th. After thirty
hours continuous firing practicab bic breach
was made, and preparations for storming
were about to commence, when the rebel ilag
was struck.
We have captured forty seven guns. sev
en- thousand shot or shell, forty thousand
pounds of powder three hundred and sixty
prisoners, with their small arms and accou
tremcnts, and good supply of provisions
''One of our men was killed, not one
wounded
DAVID HUNTER, Major General. &c"
General Benham report to Gen. Hun
ter describes the terrible effect OF our fire
as follows
At about o'clock on the morning Of the
llth the fire opened with great vigor and ac
curacY the certainty as to direction and dis
tance being greatly beyond that of the pre-
vious day, especially on the part Of the ene-
my-there being scarcely any exposure of
our force that did not draw a close shot
while the embrasures and parapets of our
batteries were most accurately reached.
"At about ten to eleven A. NJ, visited
the batteries, finding each of them most eff
tuaIly served, especially the shell and mortar
batteries nearest the fort, the batteries Just
referred to, Ia charge of the navy and Capt
Turner, and the columbiad batteries under
Capt Pelouse. | found that an embras.
ure at the preached point, which was much
enlarged Oh the previous day, and now open
ed to fully the size of the recess arch, or
sume eight or ten feet square, and the ada
cent embrasures were rapidly being brought
to a similar condition. At about noon the
whole mask and parapet wall of the cssemate
first injured fell into the ditch, raising ramp
quite visible to us, and soon after the cores
ponding parts of the adjacent classmates be
gan to fall, the Parrott and James shot pass.
ing quite through, as we could see the heavy
timber blindage in the rear Of the classmates,
(northwest) angle of the fort.
:" In this state of things | felt sure that we
would soon be called to peel off the whole
scrap wall from the front of the casemates of
the southwest front, making breach greatly
larger than the small garrison could de-
fsnd, with probably another smaller breach
on the opposite side and / at once determin-
ed that. if resistance was continued, it would
be best, and entirely practicable, to storm
the fort successfully within thirty or forty
bours And / had given directions to Gen.
Gilmore to have suitable scaling ladders re
pared for the purpose, and was arranging for
the proper forces, boats, &C., when, at about
2 P. NJ, we discovered white flag thrown
up, and the rebel flag, after telling out to the
wind for a few minutes at half mast came
slowly to the ground"
Capture of party of Ashbys Cavalry.
WOODSTOCK, Va. April l6
Sixty one ofAshby's Cavalry, including three
officers, were captured this morning and
brought into Woodstock. They were at their
breakfast, just at day break, in church, when
they were surrounded by a body Of Ringgold's )
Cavalry. and four companies of infantry of
the Forty sixth Pennsylvania volunteers, of
"en. Nliiiams' division. They surrendered
without show Of resistance. This affair oc.
CURED several miles beyond Columbia Furn.
1'e' ano within seven miles of Mount jackson.