Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-24
The Attack on Fort Sumter.
ITS WALLS COMPLETELY RIODLEO.
COMMODORE ROGERS KILLED.
No Damage to Our Fleet

NO Damage to Our Fleet.
PnTLADELPHIA. August 23.-The United
States supply steamer Arkansas, from of
Charleston, Wednesday morning, has arrived.
The attack ON Fort Sumter commenced on
Monday morning, by Gen. Glmore's large
battery and the shore battery. The monitor
! fleet, aided by the wooden vessels, attacked
forts Wagner and Gregg with great fury,
( silencing the former and almost silencing
the latter, thus enabling the shore batteries
TO play on fort Sumter. The monitors Pa
tapsco and Passaic went within fourteen
hundred yards Of fort Sumter and played on
! to it with considerable damage
| shot from fort Wagner broke a piece of
the interior lining of the monitor Cattskill,
when within one hundred and fifty yards of
that fort. The piece striking the heads of
Commodore Rodgers and Paymaster Wood
bury, Instantly killed both of them. These
were the only persons injured.
The damage to the walls of fort Sumter bv
the shore batteries and the monitors is visible
without the aid of a glass, The south and east
face Of the fort looks like honeycomb, and its
entire demolishment will soon be accomplisb-
ed. No damage has been done to our fleet.
The shore batteries continue an incessant
4 fire
LATER.-The steamer Arkansas has arrived
at the navy yard with 10 passengers. prison.
ers and invalids. She reports that the navy
and army shore batteries have done tremend
Gus execution on Fort Sumter. The south
east face Is completely riddled. The demol-
lshment of the wall is looked f,r within
week The Arkansas experienced very heavy
! weather all the way from Charleston to the
Capes of Virginia
AN ACCOUNT OF THE FIGHT
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 23.-The following
account is from the pen of Mr.. Charles C.
Fulton, editor Of the Baltimore American -
FLAGSHIP DENsMoRE, Tuesday, Aug. IS
The attack on fort Sumter was commenced
at daybreak yesterday morning, by the siege
batteries OF Gen. Gilmore, and the naval bat
terles OFT shore. At 6 o'clock Admiral Dahl
gten proceeded on board the Weehawken
and, with the IrOnsides and the entire monitor
Meet attacked batteries Wagner and Gregg
with great fury, completely silencing Wagner
and nearly silencing Gregg. The wo0den
gunboats, seven in number, also Joined in the
assault t, and enabled all of the shore batteries
to pour their shot and shell into fort Sumter.
At ~ o'clock the admiral changed his FLAG
to the Passaic, and with the Patapsco proceed
ed to within about 400 yards OF Sumter and
shellcd the sea wall with the rifled Guns of
those vessels for about an hour with marked
erect. Sumter fired about fifty return shots.
doing no damage to the vessels. whilst the
wall OF Sumter was badly Scared.
Fleet Capt. Geo. W. Rodgers took command
OF his old vessel, the monitor Catskill. and
went up into the fight going within $50 Yards
of the beach front of battery Wagner A
shot from fort Wagner broke a piece of the
interior lining, which struck on the head of
commander Rodgers, instantly killing him, as
well as PaymaSter w Woodbury. who was stand
ing at his side. Both of their heads we're spit
open. These were the only persons Injured
on land or water during the six hours engage
ment.
Inc damage done to fort Sumter bv the
siege batteries of Gen. Gilmore is visible with
out the ald OF Il glass. The rebels had erected
false wall against the wall exposed to our
batteries 1t extended to within ten feet of
the top OF the wall, over forty feet high, and
'ei leel tliick, and this wall is now a mass of
ruins, whilst the old wall is bored full of deem
noieS' the parapet crushed and ragged, and
the northwest corner capped and cracked
down almost to the waters edge.
The harbor and Stone river are filed with
torpedoes. About dozen of them have been
picked up in the Stone, and one was exploded
under the Patapsco, raising her a foot out of
the water but doing her no HARM None of
the vessels were injured in the least and the
admiral and his officers are confident in the
ABILITY OF the monitors to batter down Sum
ter lie Is, however, anxious to save the
vessels for the heavy work required of them
after Sumter Is taken, and to let the army
reduce Sumter if possible. The fleet. ex-
cept the Weehawken and Nahant. all retired
before two o'clock, but they remained to keen
Wagner still during the afternoon. and to
prevent the remounting of its guns. The
shore batteries continued firing all the after
noon and night on the wall of Sumter with
good effect.
This morning TUESDAY, Aug. lS) is
cool and clear. and the batteries are steadi-
~ at WORK The Weehawken and Passaic
are Keeping batteries Wagner and Gregg ST.
lent, and up to noon, when the Arkansas
sailed, the remainder of the fleet are living at
the moorings. The bodies of Capt. Rogers
and paymaster Woodbury. have both been en-
balmed, and go north in the Arkansas. Gen.
Gilmore announces that the work, thus far.
has been entirely satisfactory: that the work
is progressing finely. Admiral Da lgren is
much depressed by the loss OF fleet Captain
Rogers, but is hugely gratifed with the ope-
rations Of the fleet and army, and hopeful of
ultimate success.
Up to the moment of sailing at noon the
siege guns, since morning, have been hurting
about five shell per minute at Sumter, with
marked effect. Two monitors. the Ironsides
and some gunboats are Smelling batteries Wag-
ner and Gregg.
THE LATEST DISPATCH.
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 20 The Arkansas
left the fleet at o'clock Wednesday morn
ing. At that time huge volumes of smoke
were seen issuing from SunEer, as if from
burning Of cotton, and the officers of the Ar
kansas believed that the fort would be cap
tured or entirely destroyed by noon. Her
guns were replying feebly to our shots.
Fort Gregg had been entirely silenced.
Wagner still held out. The bombardment
continued without cessation during Tuesday
night, and was renewed Wednesday morning,
and when the Arkans $ left the firing was fu-
rlous, the Ironsides, five monitors, and the
shore batteries being all engaged.
Two refugees ON Savannah named Joseph
the Arkansas. They report that there is
Ia IN, IAr pahn