The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-06
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Examiner contains the following:
Charleston, Oct. 31.-The enemy's Gre
on Sumter last night continued furious
aud incessant from the land batteries.
This morning about four O'clock a pOr-
ton of the wall fell in, burying beneath
the ruins some men believed to be of the
10Th Georgia and Goth South Carolina
regiments. Thirteen are missing. The
second dispatch gives their names and
address. They were buried by the
falling in of the barracks on the surface
where they had been placed in position
for mounting the parspet in case of an
assault A fierce bon b ,rdment has been
Kept up all day on Sumter from the mon
itors and land batteries. Up TO three
o'clock this evening no further casualties
have occurred. Over 1,200 shots were
fred in "a hours. Ll .N.L II
CHARLESTON Nov. 1.-The lombard
ment of Fort Sumter continued without
intermissiOn last night and 10. day. This
evening the shots averaged four per min
ute. The firing has been from two mon
itors, two heavy and two light ri1ed guns
At Fort Gregg, four 10 inch mortars at
the middle battery, and four riAed guns
atWagner. Ga Saturday they fred four
hundred and forty-three shots--eighty-
six from the monitors and three hundred
and fifty-seven from mortaTs. Mortar
fuses are cut SO as to explode the shell
in a second or two after the report.
On Saturday night seventy riaed shots
were fired and thirty three mortar shells,
The fire of the land battery was direct
cd chiefly against the southwestern an
gle of the fort The flag staff was car
ried away twice, but was speedily re-
placed. The flag was SO cut to pieces
that the flag of the Twelfth Georgia was
used in its stead.
The casualties on Saturday were two
killed and four wounded.
The bOmbardment is still severe.
WASHINGTON, Nov, 4-The brief oilic-
ial statements from Major. Gen. Thomas,
relative to the recent fight at WAuhatchie,
have already been published, but the fol-
lowing, from Quartermaster General
Meigs, dated October Goth, possesses
some additional interest,":
Last night the eleventh corps entered
on this central campaign, General Geary,
some four miles up the Lookout Valley,
being attacked by Longstreet. About
eleven O'clock the eleventh corps while
passing two steep hills, about one humid
red and fifty feet high, received q voley
from . rebel force which had occupied
and intrenched the summit of the hills
after dark. Our regiments assaulted the
hill and, while firing q shot, steadily
advanced by the light of the moon and
drove the rebels out of their rifle pits
and down the slope Of the hill. Thirty
one dead soldiers attest the difficulty of
the assault and the valor of our troops.
When these bills were taken, they march
ed to the assistance of Gen. Geary, who
had held his position, and Longstreet
was driven back.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 4-The returns from
the interior of the State. come in very
slowly. Pro. slavery towns along the
North Missouri Railroad and Missouri
river, between Jefferson City and Kan
sas City, as far as heard from, give con-
sentative majorities. Green county gives
radical majority of 200. The soldiers
vote will swell il to five bundled. Lac
lede county, as far as heard from, radi-
cal msiority-about 200 soldiers. This
county unanimously radical. Large
radical gains over Boyd's vote for Con
gress last year is reported throughout
the Southwest Warren county, conser-
Vative majority IL; Buchanan county
conservative majority 200; franklin
county, radical majority 600. The re-
turns are insufficient yet to base any
opinion upon as to how the State has
gone.
| WASHINGTON, Nov. 3-The order fol
Gen. Bntler to relieve Gen, Foster at For.
tress Monroe is published The Navy
Department expresses qualification At Il I,
change, and Admiral Lee in particular
expresses end hopes that the new militia
ry administration may infuse vigor int
operations here. Negroes are to be coll
lected and organized into regiments az
rapidly as may be.
Gen. Foster is not expected to remain
here in command of the defences, as hal
been ieportedi
The War Department announces il
general orders that the one hundred dol
lars bounty due at the expiration of To,
term of enlisted men will be paid bY
paym asters to veteran volunteers re
naming, upon the issue of the usual dis
charge papers from their first enlist
ment.
a few weeks ago, after the battle O
ChickamAugS, Gen. Garfield forwarde,
his resignation to the War Department
accompanying it with the statement tina
he would either take his seat in Congress
or remain in the field as the Government
might think best. He had received n
reply 10 this till he came on here bear
ing Rosecrans's official reports, and en-
deavOring to have another Ohio genera
promoted. IL was very much to his owl
Astonishment, therefore, that he, to-day
received the answer to his resignati
from Secretary Stanton in the shape of
commission as Major General, tendere
) for gallant and meritoriOus services a
the battle OF Chickamauga.
= The following is an extract from
strictly private letter, received here fror
= Gen. RosecrAns to-day. have no RICH
TO make il public, but | venture TO TAX
: the responsibility GAS 10 my remoys
from the command of the Army of th
Cumberland, | have only TO say that
! pray God that the country may be a
well and better served by another. A
2 for the infamous lies which are put fort
through the press TO blast my reputation
such as disabling mental disease '.h
use of opium, 'disobedience of order
in not advancing when ordered, lin wait
c ing for reiniorcements,' etc, etc, il
Q thought they came from our government
| would despair Of a nation beaded b