The new South. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1862-1867, 1863-11-14

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RECENT INTELLIGENCE CHARIEsroN.-A late copy Of
the Charleston Courier has into possession. 1t
contains very full account of the bombarment OF Fort
Sumter by Gen. GMoREs batteries and the monitors on
Saturday and Sunday, the hundred and thirteenth
and one hundred aad fourteenth days of the sege We
copy the foIowing:-
The bombardment of Fort Sumter has continued fierce
" since last report Tho stubborn and gallant endu-
rance of Major ELLIOTT and the brave ndomtabe garrison
now engaged in the duty of holding and defending
the fort has for them glorious name and will furnish
another usrious page the future history Of the defence
of Fort SUMTER and the harbor and city of Charleston
Notwithstanding the terrible and constant fire from his
monitors anand batteries with missiles Of every concev-
able invention size and power, showered like hail from
Parro Daheren red guns and mortars upon the devoted
fortress and its garrison the enemy has been foed in his
object, and is still unsuccessful in his designs"
During Friday night the enemys fire chiefly main
tanned by Battery Gregg and his mortar on Cummings
Point Battery Sxeght shots were fred but eight Of
which missed and passed making an aggregate of
eleven hundred and twenty shots fired in twenyfour
hours"
~At three o'clock on Saturday morning deporabe dis
aser occurred resulting the instant death Of thirteen
of the heroic garrison, detailed and posted in the
barracks near the seawa in readiness for Immediately
mounting the crest IN Of an the outside
The melancholy occurrence caused three hundred
FOUNDER PARROT shell striking iron grder in the seawa
of the barracks cayng the roof and crushing and bury
ing the men beneath the ruins. The position consid
cred comparatively safe the roof having previously resisted
the continual shocks Of the falling debris"
\is painful news reached the city at early hour Sat
tray morning and created general feeling Of sadness
and depression in the community The brave and gallant
men, 80 suddenly cut off, mostly all natives and resi-
dents of this city, and their deaths brought mourning
to large number of households and distressed relatives
and friends The bodies were brought to the city Satr
day evening and taken possession OF by their respective
families On Sunday afternoon the funerals took place
from the various residences Of the deceased followed by
large crowds Of sorrowing relsves and sympathisng
friends The scene in Traddsreet where the funeral pro
cessions followed in succession peculiar and painful to
witness. The bereaved families lived side By side'
"on Saturday the bombardment again ragged furiously
steady kept up by the monitors two heavy and
two light red guns at Gregg three heavy rfed gums and
four tennch ortars at the Middle battery and four red
guns ut Wagner Four hundred and rihed shots
were fired from the land batteries of which si1one miss
cd; eightysx from the monitors al Of ,ch struck; and
three hundred and seventy three from the morrs of which
one hundred and twenty missed"
The mortar fuses learn are 50 cat as to explode the
shell a second or two after the reports"
urng Saturday night seventy rfed shots were' fred
mostly with time fuses of which ten passed over and thirty
two mortar shells of which twelve failed to strike. The
fire of the land batteries ected chiefly at the south
west angle of the fort"
The flagstaff shot away twice Saturday and replaced
by Sergeant Graham Corporal ELL and Private SWAIN all o.
the 18th aecrga Battalion"