The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-07-16
THE aITAcK on CHARLESTON.
RRPULsE OF THE ENEMY ON MORRIS
ISLAND.

ga a full accom-. Of the fighting Oh Morris
Island Saturday, and tks Subsequent lombard
meut Of Sunday. We make ap s'e following
account from them:
The enemy evidently did net, at frst, feel
secure in bis newly gained position. During
Thursday night, taceording to the statements
Of prisoners the Yankee forces were drawn
m in line of battle. Az daybTeaa, finding
that the expected night attack would not BE-
made, it was determined amosSss thu Yankee
leaders themselves to attempt al Onss. upon
battery Wagner. Gen. Strong, with a force
Of abvat 1000 picked men, 81 orse made
preparations for the assault .tiis command
consisted of four companies OF the 7th Con
necicut, Lieut. Col. Kodmaa commanding,
with the 76sh Pennsylvania. Coions' Straw
bridge, the 9sh Maine, Col. Emery; the 4Sth
and l00th New York, with the Lost Chill
dsen,' an Independent regimen.
Forming his neu into j 40 linss, soon after
dawn ON Saturday, he advanced at the double
quick towards our work. s:cf. Graham. who
wac in conmand at battery Wagner suffered
the enemy to get within forty yards, vghon he
gave The werd 10 "hTe," and down went the
foremost rank Of the assaiiants. Yet on they
came with spirit and resolution, come Of then.
even gaining tiis interior Of the works. Bat
they paid dearly fer saoss temeTity. Every
termination by cur men, VINO maintained their
ire steadily ;sand, after sharp contest Of hf
teen minutes the enemy t frat !ius gave way
and He'd in confusion. The second line retired
without any serious attempt to retrieve the
fortunes of the first
The day was won. In the meiee we had
taken I3U prisoners, and 80 Of the enemy .
dead lay stfe~n immediately III front Of our
works. An officer who had ventu.ed some
NJ az hat Nas ten. - II
were quite as mum rovs further eff from our
works: SO that it is w,thiu the bounds Of mod
Grafton to estimate the enemy 8 loss, ia billed,
wounded and missing, a. qui:e GO Oar own
loss was comparatively slight Capt. Werner,
of Savannah, with privates James BfyaD, r.
Posteil, A. Mallory, and j. A, Santina, of the
18th Georgia Battalion, with cEe or t"c
Others, whcsa names we have not learned,
were killed, and few others wounded.
The prisoners were brought to the city and
marched to Jail. Their bearing was very i'm
pertinent They admitted the severe charac.
ter Of their ioases, and stated that Gen
erai Slropg had been badly wounded
'fhe htst seen of him he had fallen from his
horse. and was carried Off the field 10y his
men, Several ether officers Of the enemy are
reported by tue prisoners 10 be eitper killed or
badly wounded-among them iLCol Rod
man Capt. Theodore DnrGick, Lt John VIII
II, :
Hicks. Of the 18th Pennsylvania Among the
oihcere, prisoners. Unhult, are Captain ID. Il.
Hooglard, Capt. V. B. Chamberlain, Ii. ".
T. Phillips, Lieut. K &. Jordan, al OF t0e
9Th Connecticut, aud Lieut.. f. w. Ware, 9.h
Maine. OGr loss was reported to be We Killed
aud ten wounded
The prisoners report their ioss OF the pre-
yious day about 50 killed and wounded. They
also state that LIT Bee was still alive Sstur-
I 4
bel, who WAS at Capt. Mitchers battery at the
time Of the attack and took part is the ao''on.
gives the following particulars:
Lieut.. G. C. Hayward, W no was fighting one
of the guns IN the Confederate works whlch
were captured Friday, upon being ordered 10
retreat, deeiiuei and said he wCpli fight HE
kan to the last. The ene my iunnntad his works
and carried the battery at the point ot the
Layonet Lieut. Hayward WaB rh0t through
both hips. 4 sleii truck the gna worked 10y
Lieut.. Bee, and exploded, ten piaees aIrskln2
his breas. and four in the i:sca liz was ea!-
ried for T. distaace OF about 6va hundred yards
by bis p.en, wheu being hard pressed by the
enemy they were compelled 10 leave him, ~
laid hin. in front of Capt Mitchei's tent. Capt
Macbeth was STAINED by shell and taken pris'
oner. The prisoners report him doing vel.
when last seen. T. GIT guns aad three nortafs
fell into the hands of tho enemy. There had
been placed ia position Oh the sand hills at the
low or eud of the island, and vera designed to
command the approaches from Little Folly
Island.
Ths Yankee prisoners, or many Of them,
were provided with flags Gi truce Of hauGher-
chief size, which they dispiayed ~ soon rs
they fell. In one c.se Il Yankee who had
taken position cntho ground and lad exhibited
HID u.y, was observed trying 10 sneak OIL. he
was speedily put beyond breach OF truce oy a
dozen balls.
THE BoMgARpMEST SUNDAY.
The bombardment OF battery Wagner was
renewed Sunday forenoon, abont ten o'clock,
By three of the monitors, assisted after wards
by two wooden gunboats. Tne firing was very
heavy and kept up fer several hours. The
enemy fired rapidly. but wildly, eliciting only
an occasional response from the forts on Nor
ris 3 Island and Fort Sumter. Oar casualties
through the day were two killed and three
wounded One shot from Fort Sumter Is said
to have taken effect one of the gnnboa's,
as che Immediately after being struck moved
cf. evidently iab0riDg very hard, SIS II her
machinery gas damaged The enemy stru1 K
the ,i.ls steamer Manigau!t o1ce Sunday
forenoon causing some little damage 10 the
machinery. Many rnmora we're at.oat thai Il
monitor was badly damaged in tEa engage
ueut on Sunday. The report OF ons being
towed off by two transports Saturday even-
ing, aud has not since made Her appearance
The Yankee land forces composing the pres
eDt expedition are under the command ot Gen.
Gilmore. Admiral Dahlgren commands the
fleet
a demonstration was made by the enemy
OH Saturday on James Island. They she!.sd
the woods very briskiy for about cne houF.
A report was in circulation that Tight iis.i
I1x, OF Nsa i..st.
vile, which proved untrue. Tae Story pr0ba-
biy sprurg from the woand!ug OF private Geo.
Alien, of the 32d Ga. An aiarm was gwen
that the enemy was advancing, add Alien,
who WAS picketipg, arose 10 leave the place,
where he was awaiting orders. While risints
he Was mistaken for Yankee and fired upon
by one of our laen, the shot producing Il very
serious wound III tbs leg.
TIE lsEMY', RAIDS On THE COAST
Early Oil Friday morning las. three Of the
enemy's gunboats steamed up toward Wal.
town Bluff After engaging section OF
Schutzs battery, they suecseded Ia handing
and took eli d number of negroes belonging 70
Mr.. Heyward NJ .nigaut. Two Of the gan.
boats, attsr removing the Obstacles iii the
river, passed up the river, and wh-n opposite
DE. Giovers plantation Their progress waf
checked by a section Of Capt. Waher'a bat
tery tWashirg gton Artillery under command
Of Lieut. S. G. Eorssy. Alter a biiak fight ol
about forty i've minutes, al II distance ot aboai
$50 yards the beats were So damaged as 10 be
compelled to draw of Ons boat, supposed IL
DO tue Planter, was SO mach crippled that she
sunk ou he's way down
The Mercury, speaking of the "situation, y
has the following;
IL appears TO us to be uaeiess to attempt 10
disvuisa trom ourselves our sibuation. By
whose fault We got into il, 1t is VAIN now 10
il auire. Ths Yankees having got possession
of the southern half OF MOTIFS Island, there