Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-07-01
From south Carolina.
New York, June q

ANON AOtht Ouuc |
The steamer Philadelphia. from Beau
fort, and the Ericsson. from Key West 18th
and Port Royal 23d, have arrived here.
The Ercss o brings lsl passengers. in
Guiding Gen Benham and staff aud fifty
seven soldiers w aided in the late engage
ment on James Island n ar Charleston.
The United States troops, under Gen. ,
Benham, made the attack at o'clock on /
the morning Of the 10Th. and were repulsed |
after four hours hard fighting, with 4 loss |
of Cos killed. wounded aud missing.
The Michigan Eighth had but $50 men
left at roll-call. The New York Seventy
ninth suffered severely. tft
The Union troops were obliged to retreat
urder cover Of the gunboats.
The account of the fight on James ISL
and copied from Charleston papers is c9r-
! rect.
The following are among the wounded
! from James Island:
G. d. Allen, amputation Of thumb;
Lieut. j. d. DJnohue, grape shot in shout
! der-both Of the Eighth Michigan.
New York, June 81.
1 tits stated that Gen. Benham is under
arrest, with orders to report at Washing
ton.
1t is stated that Gen Hunter left James
Island on the 18th, leaving Benham in
command. with orders to make an advance
TOW ards Charleston without reinlOrcements
or further orders.
1t WAS reported by deseIters that the
whole rebel force at Seee-sioavile was but
two ba,talions, With six guns mounted aud
seven mure ready for use.
A reconnaissance was made on tho 10th.
Gen Stevens. with 600 men. was to make
an attack at day break. while Gan. Wright
and Col. Williams, with 1000 men, were
to support him,
Somehow the movement WIS delayed an
, hour, and, as the troops marched up plain
fell, they were, in broad day, met by a
murderous FIRE If grape and canister.
, Two regiments only reached the front
, much cot up-the Eighth Michigan and
! Seventy-ninth New York. The Twenty
eighth Massachusetts, broke and scattered
r and the EUrty-sixth New York did ht !,
, better.
: The first two drove the euuners from the
a gons, and some even penetrated the works
o bat, the other regiments failing to supper
= them. they had 20 retreat, after holdin,
8 the batteries twenty minutes.
Meanwhile Col Williams, coming &
their support, was separated from tie for
n by marsh, anG exposed to eros, FIR
. from rebel guns in the woods. HIS troop
|. fought uobly and met with consiIersb
loss.
n Fur three quarters Of an hour not GU
was fired from the fort. aud TIE prJmp
= presence of two hundred men would hsv.
e carried it; bu; they were not there, an
n the troops retired.
Another account confirms the above, bu
r, states that the Twenty eight Mas,achusett
n did well. 1t gives our loss a. folluws -
% Killed. "a wounded, 366; missing. l24
" Cur camp is now within range Ut ia
gun5oats' FIRE. and in a safe ciud,Jipn. H.
trenchments hava been thrown up, snd II
iui"rcemf nts IRE awaited.
p Gen. BrsnBo1's troops, IL the number
lie 600 had arrived frcm hey West at JaDe
p Island, but our forces must be largely "a
2. infoTced before operations cnn he re-umeC
le Rrbel troops are constantly arriving
Preparations for the defence Uf Charle,
= ton are extensively making.
s. A Beaufort letter states shat the loss
= the Third New Hampshire was loo kile
n. ani~wounded, and Of the Eighth Michiga
L 800.
ns The same letter asserts that Com. DuooI
says be can take Charlest with five CUR
e. bvats. lie can run by Sumptsr and u
ell Notifications without ,he loss of more tia
he tive, and with the others shell the city.
Or letter from the Forty eighth New Yyr
Regiment gives the total loss as GO.