Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-04-21

building n vhiah We Were, "A q ray which
would have made the windoWE rattle meFri.
" Il there had besn any In Il. We kept up
constant watch Of the Fort except
when We built our Gre, cooked Cur Cohso,
and bad our dinner ii g elnmp Of pines and
palmetlos, hard By the shcFe. At2 O'Clock
p. Al. the Gag on tbe Fort was hanled down,
and the firing on both Bide8 discontinued -
As It turned out afterwards, q white Gag
Was hung out On the walls Of the Fort, al.
though we could not see Il, Il being on the
side fronting the Tybee batteries, and bid
from us by an angle Of the Fort. AZ the
wind was high, and heavy sea running,
we could not distinguish small boats ke-
| tween the batteries and the Forts, and only
cobjectured the fact that the equalization Of
she Fsbsl garrison WIS taking Placs. Before
", let the Point, hOWsYeF, Ne received the
intelligence shat Tie Fort bad surrendered,
and we returned sgain By moonlight, glad
70 be able to say that we had witnessed the
bombardment and surrender Of Fort Pulas-
HI. As we subseq asceFtained, two
small boats were sent from Tybee with Gen.
Gilmore AdIutant Gen. Halpina, and other
officers Of Gen, Hunters stat, to whom the
rebel o6ioer commanding the Fort, Colonel
OImslead, surrendered unc0ndiuOnGlly.-
There we're three hundred and eighty In the
Fort, all Of whcm we're taken prisoners.
oiIguE TEa loss, 'Y 08QGf
What seems astonishing, Is the fact that
the billiRerents had been banging away at
one another 10 hours, with the most terrible
eBgines Of destruction known to modem war
fare aud only one mGa killed on eGsh siis.-
We lost one man belonging to "a Rhode
Island Regiment, killed Instantly by the ex-
plosion Of q shell upon the bresch Of the
gun he was working The rebels bad one
man mon.llg wounded; two bed eash 4 leg
shot OF, and one an arm. is--a5o
HARHLEssxEss or EHR sEaLLs. r
This apparently surprising escape on their
part from the effect of the terrific storm Of
Shot and shell poured upon them from our
batteries ia explained by the fact that they
were protected entirely from the effect Of
shells bursting on or In the Fcrt, By case
mates, bomb proof like those Of sumter
The area ef the i1Cids Of the fort
was dag into deep trenches, running
parallel to each other, and the In
tervals betWsen made roofshapsd, so thai
shells falling anywhere inside the classmates,
would roll immediatsly doWninto those deep
trenches, where they would explode HARM
lessly, producing no more serious eject than
a shower of sand. The rebels say no dam
age was effected by the shells whatever, and
that their men made sport Of them. They
soon learned, as we did on Braddoek's Point,
where the mortars were located, and when
they saw the smoke and hssh Of discharge
they would all hole hkeso many Woodchucks,
and wait for the explosion, 'tai Al
WHAT DID TIE WORK.
The principal damage was done, not By
the heavy preaching guns and columbiads,
as we had expected, but By what is called
the 'James Projecti,e.n This proiectiIs L
an elongated, solid shot there Is variety
of them made to explode like shell, but by
percussion instead Of fuse these, however,
were not used here, used in q Eihed gun Ike
the parrot, with Aanges cast upon The hall,
fitting the groves in the gun, which have a
powerful t0ist thereby giving the ball
whiting motion. The balls, which, accord.
ing to the story Of the rebela whose state.
ment In this particular Is corrOborated By the
appearance st the Fort, ''did the businsss,n
were about six inches In diameter, sixteen Or
eighteen inches in length, and weighing per-
haps fifty pounds. This, however, is a guess
made from lookit q ht one, but mcst be 10 The
neighborhood of the fact. The walls 6f Pa.
iaski were made OF brick, sixteen feet thick;
and these projectiles, being steel pointad,
would, on striking, instead Of bounding
back after knocking out dozen brick or 90,
bore their way right IN, tearing g savage hole |
sVeTy 6Rs. Il was one Of these phoiecttlaa.
which, ripping It's way TO within eighteen |
inches of the magazine, brought down the |
rebel flag. Another shot from the same gun |
would have been likely to have blown them !
''sky- high 0ne Of the rebsl officers, on |
being questioned, after the surrender, IS 70 |
the dsmage done By the shells, 30, In the |
elegant language Of the military chevslieF, |
replied: "We did not care euss for the |
shells, but those id Vkssl. Rlsbt raised hill |
every timsl I don't know what yo1 cell I
them-i never saw anything like them, and |
we've got nothing like them; bat If It had
not been for them-9-d d-n them-you /
might have hammered away at rs 3 month
and We could have stool 1t.
Thesuperiority Of thisprOjeodle for breach
ing purposes, seems to be established By the
result hersj but in the field it would Be iniss
rior to shell, cannister or grape. -T5
PHIsosHRs AT HrLEoN EzAD. i
One hundred Of the Pulaski prisoners ar
rived here to-day. -
oAENogADMa AT sAVAEEAN. II
We are now hearing heavy firing in the
direction of Savannah, and there is 8 rumor
mat Fort Jackson 10 taken. It ig but RI.
NOR, however It Is expected here that
prompt movements will be made up the sa-
7Annah River, and upon Savannah City.
REBEL IRON CLAD VEssELs.
Rumors are aaost sbout iroa-olad Yesssls
being in process of fitting out ct Savannah,
put it is impossible to tell whether there is
my truth in them or not. hope General
Hunter viii send his army there as soon as
possible, to tud out.
TIE DAMAGE TO EEB FoRE.
The walls of Pulaski were badly battered,
me preach being wide enough to admit Eve
men abreast ! am informed By army men
that this Fort ives thought a. the time It was
ouilt to be as strong ss Sumter, and It has
lot been supposed possible b. the rebels to
reduce it from shore batteries. Hence, the
iefences were strongest on the side which
,ould only be approsched b. water, and
Ehere, as it turned ont they we're not attack;
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oUR LATE VICTORIES.