The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1863-09-10

ihefsiand in safeiy y, and takisg 81 board
.Msjors Wadey started ohTt6e. retnrn.
This was about eight. O'Clock Friday
evening" since which nothing has been
heard Of the boat or is .occupa MS. - n
Is thenght, howeres, ihat tho boat and
crew have been. captured. :. ,.-..-.F,. .
The bombardrhents is ssill Progressing
iurionsly at the time of clotineSour re-. a.
port, at twelve O'Clock last NIGHT. s...stq.,-
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EVACUATION OF MoRRIss IsfASp.-
10 sum up, ths events through which
we have just pa ssel, Battery .Wagper
hss-been suljecte,ifdwin: the last three.
Jays and nights to the most ie, ,iic iire
that any eartliworls has undergone 10
AL the sannsls Of warfare. Tho inn,
mcnseS descending force Of The enor,
NOUS Parrott and mortar shells of the
e9einy had nearly laid tho wood work
IF lkee ,bombproofs entife,y. bare. and.
had displaced The sand to SO great 3
degFee that the sally ports are almo>.
entirely blocked up. The. parallels of
the enemy yesterday afternoon had been
pushed up to The oery ,pouth Of Bat.
terry IYd5Re7, and it was no longer pos.
.sible to distinguish our fire from i!ral
of the es.eaemy. During the entire az
ternoou the enemy sheled The sand
hills in the rear Of Battery Wagner
Cwhere our woahded lay) very yigor.
ously.
Under these circumstances, and II
view Of the difficulties Of com,nunica.
lion with Cummings Point, tho Smpos.
sibility- OF longer holding Morris Island
became apparent, and it was dclermin-
'ed that. slrenn1us efforts should be
made at once TO release tlIe brave gar.
rison Of the Islnnd, who seemed 10 be
almost within theeremyis Srasp. This
desirable result was. accomplished with
the most commendabie promplituLo and
success. .
. AZ about six O'Clock, yesterday after.
noon, the orders for the evacuation we're
delivered to Colonel Keitt, cornmandinr
our forces on the Island EyerythinS
was as oacc made ready. for tho aban,
donment of Batteries Wagner and
Gregg. The dead were buried, and. n,
/ tnigh,ftdl, the wounded were carefully
removed in bargcs 10 Fort johnson.
The guns, which, for SO many weeks
had held .tbe foe ut bay, were double,
sho!tedT ffed and 'spikcd, the hesyje,
I pieces were Gisnonnted, and the car.
riase. rendered worthless. The preIim.
mary preparations being thus complet.
ed, the wolk Of embarkation was noise.
.lessly begun, and He brave men Of the
garrison, in forty .bmge., were soon
! Z! ding from the beach they had held
so lcudy and so long. The evacuation
WIS conducted by. Col. KefIr, assisted
! by M"jUr- Bryan, a.. &C; and the
success Wih which. what. has alwav.
teeG considered one a tho most dill
cult feats of wmfaro has been perform,
ed is worthy of the highest praise
Daite'les Gregg aud Wagner had boil
been carefully mined, with a view Il
blowing them up. 1t was about on
O'CLOCK this morning when the last ,hre,
boats-containing Colonel Kei;t and
number of his ofiicers--left the Island
The slow match was lighted by Capt ali
unguenin at Wagner, and by CAPTAIN
Le.esno at Gregg but, owing 10 som
defect in the fnzc,, no explosion too
. place at either fort.
'Cuiiug the evacuation tho enemy wa
not'idle. A constant fire Of skell W.
Kept up against Wagner, and his how
tier h"rges were bnsiiy plying Abol
this side of Morris Island to nroro,