Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1863-07-15
!: F,op D .the courier.of :Aionaoy.
The, Attack on. C Charleston.

~. Es From the Courier. of Gondoy. -
~. The Attack on. Charieston.s
The as,nult Saturday morning ON Battery Wags
ner, Sndzthe hoaYy bsmb.rdinsnt kept up on that
work by, Tho Monitors and wooden gunbosu for 4
severall lcarr saturiay and Sunday has dOmonf
.stratsd fully that tho enemy has determined to
make hi, present movement |. dssisirc Attack on
our city. - :. ~ .sz.=
\ Itisnos Known MI yet, with certainty what the ne
force. of the enemy S but prisoners report 1t from
fifteen to lwsn:y thousand. ssytrai demonstra-
;tiopa have been made on James Blnnd and tho
Savannah Railroad, doubtless intended as feint',
to divide attention and endc.yor to- carry somr
weak point Il. .ss, the enemy, uoaIe conadont' llt
viii find himself mistaken. -
About daylight Saturday: morning the enemy
riaao their FIRST determined assault on Battery
Wagner, the ccntrc fortfcation Of Morris 14land.
It was no doubt intended to DO surpri'c. The
assault was led by four Companies Of the seyontE
Conpcoticat, supported on the right endileft by
the Ninth Maine and Seventy sixth Pennsylyania
regiments, with the third New Hampshire, Forty
eighth New York, and Sixth Connecticut, inre-l
aorys-in all, between four and five thousasd men.
The euomy,sloss is estimated to havc been ct
| least fully FIVE h:ndrcd. .0ne hundred Of his.
dead lay directly infront Of the battery, one hun.
dsod and thirty unlurt and about eighty wound
cd $ere,taken prisoners. Thecommanding officer
uf the nssaulting colnmn, Genoral Strong is rn-l
ported by the prisoner, to be seriously wounded:
| TLsla1t seen Of him he had fallep'from his horse
and was carried of the field by Els men. Several
5othef officers Of the enemy arc reported by the
prisoners to bo either killcdtor badly wounded.
Our losswas reported to 10 Eve killed and ten.
woundsd. +;
Tho prisoners report their lesa Of tho previous
| day. about fifty killsd and wcunded. They also
state that Lieut.. Bee sill aivs Saturday, but
yery roveroly w.undod. Capt. Macbeth was
aGuauaoa by . shell and taksa prisoner. Tho
+ prisoners report, bih1 doing well when iast seems
Eight guns and three mortars fell into the hands
o. the enemy. These had been placed in position
on the ,sna hill, at tho lowor sSna Of the Island
and were designed to acom,nanu tho approached
from Little Folly Island.
TlIsre fellows list Of furty:one prisoners from
tue 1th Connecticut, thirty six from the 76ta
pennsylYanis, and fifteen from the slh Maine
Total e2-who are lodged il Jail, and ftty-nine
wounded Yankees rle-arc in hOslital.]
The total los, in the 2lst South Caroline Rogi-
mont is killed .1sf; wounded, and missing l7o.
This is official. =. -. - -
: Those WOUNDED in the ac,iun Of Fdday, and
low in hospital, number o;ghty-tHO.l :,
80 the aoNDAaDaEir SUNDAY. :,
The bombardmcnt Of Battery Wagner was re-
moved Sunday forenoon, about ten o'clock, BY
,brec Of the Monitors, assisted aftcrward. BY two
! wooden gunIoats. Tho firing was very heavy
and kept up tor several hours. Ihs@ensmy lfred
rapidly, bnt wildly, elicitins only sn oce"ionni
response from tho forts: on Norris, T1I4ld and
Fort Sumter Our casualties through the dsy
were Two killed and lhrco wounded. 0n6shot
from Fort Sumter is said to. hare taken; effect on
ono of the sunboats, as she immediately aissr ie-
ing struck moved of, evidently labnrng very
hard. xs If her machinery was d.mpged. The
one.ny struck tho iiltio gteamcr MInisanie sonce
Sunday forenoon, causing seme littlo dsfnasc to
the machinery. Many rumOrs wsre afaats thst.a
Monitor Was badly damaged in 'the. engasemsnt
Sunday. The report u enc being crippled en-
Saturday was correct, She was towed .f by two
transport, Saturday evening, and hsp n.tsipeo
made her appearance. sass :,
/ The Yankee land f.rces- composing the. Presont
expedition rre under, the command Of General
Gilmore. rAdniraL Dahigroep comm snds5ths7
fleet. - - go -. ,s;ss,- - -
A.depon,trstIon xas made by ths enemy ON
Saturday Cd Jane. Island. They shollsd the
woods very bri:kly for about one hour. report
wa, in circulation TINT light had taken place on
Sunday morning at Seceasiopyillc, shicl, proved
uitre. s3t ,es "a
THE ESEHYs RAins on THE COAST
Ne hs,e been kindly furni'hcd with'the follow
ing particulars hya re,ltleman just, from jack
.oubbro', Of the late raid Of the enemy ou RDtoSn
and the Jack.unboro. bridge. -.
Early I'm Friday morning last, threO of the eue-.
my'x sunbpats steamed. up townrd Wiltorn:Duh.
After oMga: ing "a section of schultz's Battery
they succeeded in landing and took OF u nambor
Of negroes belonging to Mr.. Hayward Manigault
rwp2 tho gunboats, aitor removing the obstacles
in she rirer, pa.sea mp tho river, and whom onpe-
site DIR. Glover's plantation taoir progress was
checked bya soclion, Of Captain Waltorss Bate
ry, washington Artillery under command Of
Lieut.. s. G. Horsey.' Aftor q brisk fight Of about
forty-hye minutes, ut q distance 6f. about $50
yards, the boats were so danaged as 80 be COM.
pcllol to draw Of. One boat, supposed 70 6e tho