Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-07-30

and Cummings Point enladed It on the left In the midst
this terrible shower OF shot and shell they pushed their
way reached the fort portions Of the oath
the 9th Conneci aud Ash New York dashed through
the bitches gained The parapet and engaged in handto
hand fight tn the enemy and nearly half hour held
their ground and did not fall back until nearly every
miss;oned officer was shot down.
As on the morning of the assault Of the tn instant
these brave exposed TO most CALLING fire Of
grape aud canister from howitzes. king the bitches
from the bastons OF the FORT from hand grenades ard Om
almost every other modern implement war.ar re- The
rebels fought with tho utmost desperation 80 did the
larger portion of Gen. Strones brigade long there
officer to command it. When the brigade made
the assault Gen. Strong gaanty rode at it's head When
il fell back broken, torn and bleeding Major Pimpton, Of
the Third New Hampshire, was the highest commissioned
officer to command it, Gen. Strong, Col Shaw Col Chat
field, Col Barton. Col Green, and Col. jackson all had
fallen
ANOTHER ASSAULT AND REPULsE
The First Brigade having failed to take the fort it was
the turn If Col Putnam commanding the Second bri
gade composed Of the 9Th New Hampshire hA 62d Ohio
Col Steele, the 9th Ohio, Col Voorhees, aid the Tooth
New York, Col Daney. to make the attempt. But alas
Tho task too much for him. Through the same terri
BILE fire he led hi, to- over and INFO the rt and for
hour held half OF it fighting every of that
time with the utmost desperation and with the First
brigade it not until he himself fell killed and nearly
all his Ulcers wounded, and reniorceu ents arriving
that his fell back and the rebel shout and cheer Of
victory heard above tie If Sumter and the guns
from Cumn gs Point In this secosd assault by Col Put
mans brigade, Col Turner, of Gen Glmcros ste cd
ut the side Of Col Putnam when ho fell and with voice
and sword urged the thnued ranks to the aa charge
But it toe late
1t madness for the Second to remain longer under
deadly fire, and the thought Of ring body
the enemy could not for moment be entertained To
fight their way back to the entenchue nts was all that
could DO done, and ia this retreat maby poor fellow fell
never to rise again. Without doubt many Of
fell from FIRE. The darkness 10 Intense the
Of artillery loud, the fight Of grape aud canister
shot rapid and destructive that it was absolutely i'm
possible to preserve oder in the ranks Of individual
panies to say nothing of the regments More than half
the tune in the fort the fight simply hand
to hand One he wounds received by many clearly in
dictate Soue have swordthrusts, some hacked
the head stabbed with bay Ones and few
knocked down with the butend of muskeis, but
ed in time to get away with len heads There
terrible fighting to Into the f,It and terrible fighting
to get oft The cowardy stood better chance for
their Ives than the fearless Even il they rdsred
the shell of STUNT thickly falling around them in
the darkness and prisoners they could not be SAFE
til victory decisive AMI unquestoLed rested with
the other belig rent
GEN. GILMoRE-THE ENEMY's Loss
10 this night assault, and from its TO its
clOse, Gen. Gilmore his staff and his volunteer aids,
Stating of Col Lttefeld, Of the Fourth South Carolina
and Majors Bannster and Stry KEN of the paymaser's
department were constan ly under fire. and dong all in
on reinforcements All that human power could do to
carry this formidable earthwork to have been done
No woua have imagined in the morning that fierce
cannOnade from both the navy the batteries shore
erected But the moment touched the parapets
Of the fort the enemy thousand three hundred strong
reamed from their safe hiding place, where hey had
been concealed during the day aud fresh and strong
prepared TO drive back We then found to
that the l5Inch shot irom the monitors when red
at distance of but thousand and eighty yards, had
not injured tb, the least Only ths parapets of the
fort had been knocked into sand heaps Prisoners taken
that the rebel loss during the tight quite three
hundred that at gun there four detachmeDts OF
shot down; aud that late IN the aft fire
became hot that the officers commanding companies
cud not lead drive Their out Of the bomb proofs
Col Putnam is reported not dead but severely wounded
The New York Evening Post states that authentic in
tegence from Morris Island to the 2lst instant received
in that city through private letters shows the result Of
Gen Gmore's operatons that he possesses three
ourths of the Island ard that although the assault upon
Fort Wagner failed be has succeeded planting his heavy
batteries position which commands Fort Sumter The
General is ut all discouraged by his failure at Fort
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