Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-09-18

TELEGRAPHIC.
OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE EVAC-
UATION OF MORRIS ISLAND.
A BIoodless Victory in East Ten
nessee--Great Rejoicing Among
the People.
Ft. Smith, Ark, Taken by Union
Troops.

Ft. Smith, Ark, Taken by Union
Troops.
WASHINGTON, Sept 10.
The following was received here this after
noon:
DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH
Headquarters IN the Field, Sept. 7th.
TO Major General Halleck:
have the honor to report that Fort Wag-
ner and Battery Gregg are ours. Last night
our sappers crowned the crest of the counter
scope of Fort Wagner on its sea front, mask
ing all its guns, and an order was issued to
carry the place by assault at nine this morn
ing, that being the hour of low tide. About
ten o'clock last light the enemy commenced
evacuating the Island, and all but seventy
five of them made their escape from Cum
ming's Point in small boats. Captured dis
patches show that the fort was commanded
by Col. keitt of South Carolina, and garri-
soned by 400 men, and Battery Gregg by
between 100 and 200 men. Fort Wagner is
a work of the most formidable kind. A
bomb proof shelter, capable of holding 1900
men, remains intact, after the most terrible
bombardment to which any work was ever
subjected. We have captured nineteen
pieces of artillery and a large supply of am
munition. The city and harbor Of Charles
ton are now completely covered by my guns.
have the honor 10 be, General, very re.
spectfully your obedient servant,
O. A. GILMORE,
Brigadier- General Commanding.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 10.
Dispatches to the Gasette from Knoxville,
Tennessee, the 9th, say e: The great cam
paign of the war is over. We are in full pos
session of East Tennessee. 1t is again a
bloodless victory. The campaign was skill
fully planned and energetically executed.
Such was the rapidity of our movements that
the rebels were taken by surprise and fled be-
fore US without destroying property. At
Loudon they attempted to hold the bridge,
but the impetuosity of the I'd Tennessee
regiment broke them to fragments. Three
STEAMBOATS,, three locomotives, and large
number of cars were captured by them. The
march of our army was perfect ovation, and
our entry into Knoxville an event long to be
remembered. Thousands of people, black
and white, lined the may with shouts, and joy
and music reigned supreme.
Burnside addressed the people and assured
them of protection and that while justice
policy Of the Government Gen. Castor also
spoke in touching terms of their sufferings
and announced its end. Col. Saunders was
called out amid shouts of welcome. Colonel
Gilbert was appointed military Governor and
Gen. Castor Provost Marshal General Of East
Tennessee.
Second dispatch says our right wing is in
easy reach of Rosecrans' left.
The rebels regarded our expedition as a
rad until the last moment.
The march of $50 miles was hard one
but was made in good order. Trains all up
in good shape.
LEAvENwoRTH, Sept. 10.
Official intelligence of the capture of Fort
Smith reached here this evening" On the
3lst Blunt camped within two miles of Coop
er and Cobell, who had a force of 1000 reb-
els West of the Fort. The next morning he
marched to attack them but they had fled
Col. Cloud chased Cobell 20 miles South and
had a fight, but after a few rounds Cobells
men fled in all directions. Oar loss was 8
wounded Capt. Lane of the end Kansas,
was killed. Before Cloud returned Blunt en-
tered the Fort unresisted. Blunt is very
sick and will return homeward as soon as
able to sit up. The Greeks have mainly de-
serted the rebels
Mcintosh has gone towards Red River
main in the Indian Territory. Contrabands
are tlocking to Fort Smith. The rebels evac-
uated Little Rock and removed forty miles
below, to Fort Washington, which they are
fortifying
FT. MONROE, Sept. II.
The steamer Massachusetts arrived from
Charleston bar on the evening of the l1th.-
On the Stb, the Weehawken sent shell into
Moultrie's magazine, exploding it.
The Tronsides sheed Moultrevile firing
and destroying half the town. The monitors
and Ironsides bombarded Sullivan's Island
four hours, doing extensive damage.
On the 8th, at II p. NJ, boat expedition
left the squadron to storm Sumter, but were
repulsed with the loss of a number killed,
wounded and prisoners.
LATER.
New YORK, Sept. l2.
The Arago, from Charleston on Wednes-
day evening, has arrived.
The Ironsides and monitors were still she'll
ing Moultrie. Sumter had not surrendered.
The Union forces were erecting works to shell
Charleston. No attack on the city had yet
cen made.
LEAvENwoErH, Sept 70.
The steamer Shreveport arrived here last
night from the Upper Missouri. She left
Gen. Sibley's command Aug. 9th. He was
then marching to point 80 miles above,
where about 600 Sioux were encamped, with
the intention of capturing or destroying them.
The Indians were very hostile all the way
down to Ft. Pierre, near the mouth of the
Yellow Stone.
The crew of the steamer Shreveport had a
fight with the Indians, lasting three hours,
in which three of the former and four of tho
latter were killed.
At nearly every place where the boat at
tempted to land. Indians were found ready to
attack them. On several occasions the crew
were compelled to cut their cable and let the
boat float into the stream.
A party of thirty miners, who started down
on a ilat-boat from Milk River, are supposed
to have been killed by the Indians.
CHATTANOOGA, Sept. 70.
Details Of Negley's engagement at Dug
Gap have come in From all we can gather
the casualties are light. Negey retired three
miles, to the foot of Lockout Mountain
Bairds division was also engaged at Dug Gap,
four miles North of New Lafayette, where the
Ualn Coluhn Vi DIagS ARMY was at tue
time of the engagement.
Bragg feared he would lose conhol over
the line of retreat on Rome-retreating
slowly to avoid repit tion Of the scenes Of
Tullahoma. The retreat was conducted so as
to prevent struggling, nevertheless large
numbers Of deserters come in daily. Three
hundred of the 10Th Tennessee came in IN a
body. At least one thousand deserters have
arri ved here since tho eyapua alton and laroo
numbers are said to b. on the Mississippi