The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-08-29
ARRIVAL OF DISORDERS.


Two deserters from Battery Gregg
came in this afternoon, having left that
work on Monday night and effected the
perilous journey through the marsh TO
our batteries on the left. They were
nearly forty eight hours in accomplish.
ing the brief distance of two miles
These men belong to the First South
Carolina artillery, and have been for seven
months stationed at Fort Sumer which
they left on Sunday last.
That Sumter will fall, they say is con-
sidered certain by the rebels. Three
weeks ago they moved their guns with
one exceptions nine-inch rille-from
the gorge walls to James Island, mount
ing Palmetto 'Quakers" in their stead
On Sunday there was good deal of talk
among the garrison of evacuating Sum-
ter, and it is the belief expressed bv
these men that only a small force to work
the guns upon the sea face and TO keen
the battle flag flying, is now present in
the fort
The gorge wall of the fort had been
Strengthened by sand bags and cotton
bales, the latter placed five or six feet
from the masonry and the intervening
space filled with the former, and thsn an
additional tier of sand bags being piled
up against the cotton. This protection,
however, was found to be inadequate
when the fire Of our preaching guns was
experimentally opened last week. The
effect Of one of these trial shots upon A
Confederate steamer behind the fort |
noticed in my letter by the Fulton.
The deserters, in their account Of the
proiectile, say that it took off portion
of the parspet of the gorge wall, passed
through the quartsrs, tore up the ovens,
and knocked hole through nine feet of
masonry on the other side The de-
stroyed bricks fell upon the steamer, and,
besides carrying away her smokestack,
exploded her boiler, and "made white
men out of four niggsrs."
In the first days bombardment-o
Monday AS these men report one gun
ia Battery Gregg had its truniOns knocked
of by shot from the Ironsides. In the
above work four were killed and six
wounded In Wagner the casualties all
told numbered eighteen.
asked one of the deserters if the rebel
eVANAetb kcutihliy thouBhb Duuittf WOulu
fall. "We don't think nothin' about il
we know il" was his reply. The
people of Charleston undoubtedly know
IT. too; for only the very poorest class,
who cannot command even the means 70
get away, are at present in the city.
THE BOMBARDMENT STILL CONTINUES.
From one end of our lines TO the 9TH
er our guns are pouring their fire against
the devoted gorge wall. But though
the effect of our proieoules is all that
could be desired or expected, tho gorge
wall obstinately stands. Enough of the
masonry yet remains to keep il persist
emily upright. IL refuses to come down,
till eaten, piece by piece away. That
the rebels who constitute its garrison
mean 10 maintain their tenure 10 the last
moment is evident from the industrious
manner in which they are piligg sand
bags into the apertures; from their
spiteful fire against our iron clads when
ever they approach; from the steady
how Of shot and she'll from Fort john
son and the James Island batteries
from the angry yolleys Of grape and |
canister, and spherical case which Wag-