The new South. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1862-1867, 1863-08-01
EXCHANGE EoFwoUNDEDP PRISONERS
FROM THE MORRIS ISLAND FIGHTS.

80 Wounded Rebels and Fire Surgeons carried
Up-1O5 of our Wounded Returned TO Us-lOS
Sill at Charleston-5l Died of their Wounds
+ .AH the Black Soldiers Deta,ned Long Interview
,cith the Rebels.
The steamer Cosmopolitan arrived here on Fri
day night last from Charleston Harbor, with one
Hundred and five wounded men Of ours, who fell
into the rebels hands at different times on Morris
Island. We are indebted to Mr.. Charles B. Fem
wick, the obging purser of the boat and to vari-
ous other gentlemen on board for courtesies exten-
ded. We snbjoin an outline of the tripto Charles
ton and the interview with the party on the rebel
steamer.
i AS mentioned last week, Lieut.-Co Hall, and
Surgeon John ]. Craven, with flag OF truce, had
previously made arrangements for mutual eX-
change of wounded prisoners, to be paroled for
regular exchange. In accordance with tlis agree
ment thirty nine of the rebel wounded in eur hands
were placed on the COsmopolaan, ofwhch Surg.
r. B. Bonticou has charge, and with them Surg.
John J. Craven, Chief Medical Officer, started for
Charles. .on Harbor at 9 o'clock on Friday morn
ing. They arrived off the bar at about eight
| O'Clock. AT 10 O'Clock they went over the bar.
and into the harbor, having taken on Lieut.-Col
Hall, Provost Marshal General, on Gen Gilmore's
staff at Morris Island, his duty being to supeIin-
tend the paroling Of prisoners, in behalf Of the
! General Commanding.
brisk bombardment was then going on, but it
500, ceased, and the appointed hour having ar
rived. there was cessation Of hostilities on both
sides. The Cosmopolitan had white flag at her
fore. and yellow one at her main; and as she
steamed into the harbor was met outside Fort
Sumter, near Battery Wagner, by the rebel steamer
Alice
The Alice is Clyde-built propeller which has
run the blockade within week, escaping the fate
| of another English steamer which was sunk by the
Ironsidss guns, just at the mouth of the channel,
only at the beginning of last week. She had not
| b. en- discharged and the layers of wounded under
the awnings on the deck were aanked by conspic-
nous displays of bananas; and other more substan-
tia specimeps of the steamers cargo, of which the
rebels evidently intended to make a prominent
display.
The Alice came to anchor and the COsmogOlitaa!
steamed alongside. plank was thrown across,
and DIR. Craven announced officially the object OF
the visit. Col. Edward C. Anderson. of the Con-
federate Artillery, responded coureously, and the
exchange took place Immediately. On the .al,ce
were members of the Charleston Fire Department,
commanded by Chief Engineer Mathews, acting as
a stretcher-corps, to remove the wounded.
| The .Al,ce had on board one hundred and five OF
our wounded We have no room for the descrip-
tive list furnished by the rebels.
The form of paroling the prisoners was gone
through with by Col Anderson and Major J. Motto
Middleton, Aide-de-Camp to Gen. Ripley, on the
part of the emery; and Lieut.-Col. James F. Hall,
Provost Marshal General, on our part. The form
of parole, the signatures, and the witnessing, was
as follows:
eI, the undersigned, prisoner of war, captured
near Charleston: hereby give my parole of honor,
not to bear arms against the Confederate States,
or to perform ~ military or garrison duty, what
ever, until regularly exchanged, and further that
will not divnlgc anything relative to the position
or cordition of any of the forces of the Confeder
4 ate States.
! This day Oath of July, 1863
fWitness). EDWARD ANDERSON,
Colonel Artillery G. S. A.
! Major J. Motto Middleton, A. d. g.
Paroled this 2ith of July, A. D., 1863:
By Command of Gen. q. A. GILMORE,
Commanding Department of the South.