Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-06-19

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EditoTs intelligence:
| At midnight one week ago the Tooth
started from camp in light marching order
I for James Island. We came to Hilton
Head on a gunboat. Thence We were trans-
ferred TO the blOckading steamer BienVille.
! She has captured2 steamers and sehoon-
| era OF Charleston in FIVE weeks all laden
With arms and ammunition, and every
sailor on her has 50, 900 prize money. "A
I bully boat and q bully crew" From our
conceptions Of sailors formed on the Ocean
| Queen we could scarcely realize that we
were on a boat. There. We were crowded
WOrse than cattle on a Railroad, and could
get = civil word from nobody. The free.
generous, rOllickiDg bIuejackets and the
soldiers coalesced most wonderfully. On
Monday we passed or 10 Others, steam
era and sailboats, under way, like q shark
would mud turtle.
This put all hands In high humor, and
the Roundheads were the frst troops at
James Island. This WAS done with three
prize BehoOners in TOW, and their crew. of
rebels and 'Hinglish, ito the number of Is,
on board as priL- They were a seabby.
unWashed, surly set of men from our mo-
ther country, who sends shipIoads of Wea-
pons for her children to cut each other'sI
thrOAts with; the nation whose public
sentiment aud government endorses the
aforesaid that she may obtain the sweet
I Peeuuiary, and is then horri6ed by Yankee
love of the ''halmighty dollar.D The rab-
id rebels among them were South Caroltni-
ans, and more haug-dog looks of stupidity,
ignorance and low-broWed, loug-iaWed,
thin-liPped rascality it has never been my
| eyes misfortune to look upon.
On Monday evening We landed per gun
boat bale At Old Battery, the frst troops
to the assault.
Coming 10 Stone Inlet, ne saw deserted
sand batteries along the shore for two
miles. 1t was astonishing the amount of
/ work that had been done. The works
/ were both numerous and extensive, and
constructed with great labor. Turf had
been laid all over the outside of the EN-
bankments, to keep the sand from slip
/ ping down, and in many cases the whole
defeuses were built of sod, to render them
more tough and permanent. Piles had
been driven across the river at LegreeTille.
All in vain they could not stand the ''rOt-
ter shot"
AT LegreeTille all of our brigade, except
the 10Th aud Companies A, D, r and /, re-
manned. Taking the gunboat Hale, this
detachment landed at "Old Battery" so
laid down in Bache's Edition of Govern.
ment Coast Survey. Co. A was the fra,
of the United States forces to land on
James Island, and commence the siege OF
Charleston, the Babylon of Secession. The
fort is 500 feet long, and its ramparts
would shelter two regiments of sharp.
shooters. We bfVOuaced in the fort. Be.
fore day on Tuesday morning, forty men
from each Of our four companies, were de.
tailed to support the 19th's pickets, thrown
out the evening before, At dSybreak oul
forces were attacked by the rebels ad.
Vancing as skirmfshers through a wood.
J on our men, in open order in field. The
roll of musketEy was brisk for hours. The
enemy undertook to flank MS, when our re
/ serve of two companies, of the Massachu.
sets 2sth, were ordered TO retire, and Oul
boys not notified of the order As Gen
Stevens afterwards remarked, our little
force of l60 men, ''stoOd like stone
wall" The enemy, uuOpposed on thu
flank, crept behind us to the woods, TO the
spot that had been occupied by our re-
serve, completely cutting US of The fttry
of the Ere may be imagined, when a Negro
hut, occupied by some half dozen of us
ard constructed Of oyster she'll mortar
was torn off by the MIME balls of the Mis-
sissippi sharpshooters brigade, at least I
! loot al the corners and windows. Our boys
With Springfield rifles, let them have it at 3OI
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off by ;heir comrades. All of the Tooth
except Capt. Cline, OF Co. F, and 20 men
fought through to 1 aud got of. Thu
prisoners were taken By refusing to retirt
: oven when surrounded. Three ofour com
} pauy were lost: Corporal j. ", Bard, o
Pittsburgh, JnO, Kerr and Jno KlOt8baiker
of Washington county, Pa. The reserve
aud 10th joining US the lost ground wa
3 regained at a charge bayohets. After din
ner dash was made at a battery with thu
bayouet by the Roundheads alone, two
cannon taken aud hauled of to our line.
by hand under storm of shell. Right o
the boys, left Of them and all around thay
Kissed and burst, but with the help of thC
10th, after the first quarter mile, they heli
: on The pieces are 6-ilch carronade, fol
. grape. At night our boys were relieved
and came back to Old Battery, leaving
piekets out two miles. They did vel
: enough for the first time under ere.
3 In the morning Mr.. Thomas. @. McKeevel
ofWsst Middleton, Washington County, wal
wounded, gallantly lighting. He was shot
in the shoulder. The wound is serious
: but the doctors say he will get we'll. OuI
? small force of leo men lost 21prIsoners,
killed and wounded, 3 since dead, In ali
"a, or their number. Some narrow es-
caPes were made. James Thompson, OF
Company A, took refuge from the shells ID
a sand hole, as did everybody till they bursi
or past Hewas ordered QUITO catch Can't
Stevens horse. he did so, and going back
found the hole double size. A caunon bali
had done It. Clothing was often cut
Wednesday and Thursday passed amid rain
misery, and fatigue duty, unloading stores
from boats. We campin our pOnc6o tents
Every man carries third OF a tent in his
oil-cloth, and tent big. enough for 3 to
sleep in. Friday 40 Of oGr company were
again on picket, and the rebels shelled us
on and on till we were relieved last night
They came close, but hit no one, aud the
aecesh got their coffee sweetened by. the
gunboats. These crawl up every swamp
and protect the piCkets, shooting when the
enemy begin till they stop.
The Captain of the PaWnee sWenrs the
first heavy dew that falls, he is going "a
storm the enemy's landWorks, sailing
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