Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-07-31
LATEST NEWS.

BY TELEGRA PH
TO THE WORCESTER DAILY SPY

| NASHVILLE, Tenn, July 23-We are per-
mitted to send you the following facts collect
cd here from deserter just in from Bragg's
army In the fight on Morris Island the reb-
els sustained a very heavy loss of killed and
wounded, at first reported at 500, and then re-
duced to $50. Among the killed is Brig.
| Gen. George Smoot. Col. Langdon Cheeves,
| Col. John Bee, and Maj. Tote. The body of
Col John Bee is in Union hands, the other
three had been brought into Charleston.
Great CONSERVATION pervqdes the city, and
women and children are leaving. All the
free negroes are being pressed in the service,
and the only hope for Charleston, say Its
friends, is by the bayonet.
| New YORK, July 30.-The Times Wash
ington dispatch says Gen. Gilmore has been
promised all the reintorcements he needs.
| Charleston must fall, and that toe, shortly, if
energy, CELEBRITY and l5-inch guns will accom-
plish the result. The statement that General
Gilmore's losses in the recent engagement
were one third his total force is incorrect
His losses were not near so heavy as at first
reported In the last action he did not lose
over 700 men, and his total loss since he be-
gan the campaign will not amount to over
100.
The U. S. steamer Paul Jones has just ar
rived from Charleston, 26th inst, and reports
that the siege of fort Wagner was still pro-
crossing. Gen. Gilmore had succeeded in
erecting battery of heavy siege guns within
1000 yards Of fort Wagner. Forts Sumter
and Johnston keep up continual fire on the
federal forces on Morris Island. Our casual
ties are about six a day
New YORK, July 30-Erening.- From
passengers by the Cosmopolitan we learn that
the principal guns of Fort Wagner had been
Silpurpd lpavinU nnlv hONritzarS FIR rho ranols
to use. Reinforcements are said to have
reached Gen. Gilmore, besides several two
hundred and three hundred FOUNDER Parrots.
The rebel officers are excessively exasperate
at being attacked by the Massachusetts 54th
regiment. On being asked for the body of
Col. Shaw, the rebel reply was: - He has
been buried along with his niggers." Often
sive operations by Gen. Gilmore are being
actively prosecuted.
Most of the wounded officers of eastern
regiments from Morris Island left for Boston
this evening. Lieut.. Col. Hallowell is wound
ell i" s>veS pl~eee, and hos gone To Philadel-
phia to the residence OF his father. He de-
scribes the fight at fort Wagner as the most
desperate contest ever engaged in, and eXtols
the valor OF the oath Massachusetts as almost
unprecedented.
New YORK, July 30.-The Tribune's Nor
ris Island correspondence says our entire loss
in the late assault on fort Wagner, according
to official report, is 15l7. The rebels claim
to have buried $50 of them. This extraordi-
nary proportion of killed could only have
been reached Ivy indiscriminate slaughter of
our wounded los of our wounded are still at
Charleston and Columbia The officers and
men of Slhe 9th Massachusetts (colored)
will not be given up to us, and unot
fetal reports say the negroes have been
sold into slavery, and the officers treated with
unmeasured abuse. In fact, all our wounded
at Charleston has been treated most barbar-
ously. Opportunities to amputate were eager
ly seized upon by rebel surgeons, and it was
performed in cases of the slightest gunshot
wounds.
On the left our batteries were advanced
600 yards nearer Sumter on the 25th and Goth.
Two hundred Founders have been placed in
position. Lieut.. Col Leggett of the 10th
Conn, lost leg on the oath by shell from
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