The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-08-13
The War News.

The War News.
A despatch from Mobile, dated August :, two
days later than our previous advices, states that
the situation has not materially changed since
the enemy's victory over our iron-clads on last
Friday.
yesterday morning announcing that the Morgan,
the only gunboat of our fleet which was not
either sunk, beached, or captured, had succeeded
IN getting over the bar and reaching Mobile.
Petersburg.
The only thing of interest from Petersburg is
abe report that Grant is moving OF towards City
Point many of his heavy guns. The great clouds
Of dust so much talked about month ago have
again risen into notice; but whether they are
ID up by wagons passing TO and fro, or troops
kick, q Il is impossible to say.
moving o., rrOm Mobile.
"A special to the Idce,tiscr
NOME, August S. VS. gunboats, with
says One Of the enen. 70 communicated
wounded, LETT for Pensacola. W. was doing
with her. Admiral Buchanan's wounG
well. He may be saved. -
wounded; on the Selma eight were killed, in
eluding lieutenant Com stock and seven wounded;
on the Morgan one was slightly wounded.
The garrison at Fort Morgan are in iino spirits.
Their loss is slight. The enemy is firing wildly.
A gunboat came up last night, also the crew of
the Games. The enemy lost one monitor and
one gnnboRt
In Mobile business is generally suspended.
The city is q military camp. Three gunbOat5
came within q few miles Of Dog river bar ye5ter-
day evening, and went Dack. Inc enemy ulNc
merely carried our outposts.
From New Orleans.
CLINTON, La, August New Orleans papers
state that the enemy have entirely cractlltel
Brownsville, in Texas, removing everything.
Our batteries in sinking the clara Bel killed
three and wounded thirteen Yankees .-+'ths
balance escaped 10 Skipwith lanztf1g.
A national negEqs 'c0nvenion Is TO be held in
New York o9fthe 4th Of October.
ssnerday morning at o'clock Colonel scott
captured the stockade at DOyles plantation, on
the river, below Baton Rouge, without the loss OF
a man. We have over one hundred prisoners
and large amount of military stores.
Our Officers Exchanged at Charleston
IL will be recolected that some timo in juno
last, after the enemy had persisted in savagely
firing, without any military object, upon the city
and noncombatant citizens OF Charieston, our
authorities determined 10 try what effect would
be produced upon the enemy by quarterlng III
portion Of Charleston, within range OF his guns,
number of his officers of highest rank, then in
our hands. Fifty Yankee oificers--generals,
eolonels and maiOrs--were sent to Charleston
for that purpose and duly confined in quarter Of
the city exposed to the Yankee shells.
Immediately on hearing of this proceeding, the
Yankee Government selected fifty of our officers
in their prisons to be exposed to our fire before
Charleston and even went TO work to construct
cabins for their confinement on Cummings Point,
the end OF Morris Island, not more than q thou
sand yards ffOm Fort Sumter, and also exposed
to the fire of other batteries.
The following, with five others whose names
we have failed 10 obtain, were those Of our OIL
GERS selected by the Yankees for this pretty
service -
Major-G General Edward Johnson of Virginia
MajOr-GeneTal Frank Gardner, Brigadier Gene
raj ]. j. Archer and Brigadier. General NJ. Jef
Thompson; Colones and Lieutenant Cooncls
Duke of Kentucky Barbour, OF North Carolina;
Morgan, of Kentucky Ward, Of Tennessee; Cobb,
of Virginia; PEBBLES, Of Virginia; Parsely, Of
North Carolina; Carter, of Virginia; Furgusson,
OF Virginia; FOrney, Of Alabama; Fitzgerald, of
Yirginia Martz, Of Va; Patton, of Kentucky +;
Ghfnrny n MissOur. Smith. of Louisiana
Bruce, OF Tennessee; Brown, ofSOuth Carolina;
Davidson, of North Carolina; Pell, Of; Call-
well, of -; and Candill and Tucker, of Ken
lucky AIajors-Webber, of Mississippi; Ander-
son, of Virginia Hanks, OF Kentucky; Valley,
of South Carolina Smith, of Tennessee; Saun-
ders and Higley, Of California; Carson, Of Vir-
gina; Henry, Of Missouri; Groce, of Texas (;
Upshur, of Virginiai Emmett, of North Carolina
Manning, Wilson, Dupre, and Jaques, Of Loui-
siana; and Jackson, of Virginia.
These officers were taken out of Fort Della
ware on the Goth of June, aud put aboard the
gnnboat Dragon, and transported 20 Hilton
Head, where they arrived on the fourth day after
leaving Fort Delaware The cabins at Cummings
Point, with the construction Of which our gun
ners at Sumter are said to have interfered con-
siderably, were ready for their reception, and
they, no doubt, would have been put into them
forthwith but for q certain message from General
Samuel Jones. General Jones informed the
Yankee General Foster that If he put our officers
on Cummings Point, he (Jones) would remove
the Yankee officers from Charleston and put
them in the most exposed part of Fort Sumter.
This was a Sumner for Foster; he knew GEN
eral Jones would execute his threat to the letter,
and that in that case either the siege OF Sumter
must be abandoned or else every one OF the cap
tive Yankee officers would be torn 10 pieces Dy
the guns OF their friends in three or four days
In this dilemma Foster retained our officers at
Hilton Head, and wrote to Washington for IN
structOns
Our officers remained in the gunboat at Hilton
Head for forty days, and gay, hot time they had
of il. During the day half of them were per
mitted to go on deck at a time, while the Other
half sWel;ered between decks, where there was 9
large cooking stove always in operation 10 ade
70 the hsrrors of the place. But, though crbbed
cabined, and confined in a small vessel, under al
almost iTopic sun, with the speedy prospect o
being shortly exposed TO almost certain death
their spirits never tagged. Indeed, the graves
and most dignihed of the party renewed thei
youth and assumed extraordinary gayety, witt
songs and laughter, and a thousand boyish praua
We do not know what passed between til,
Yankee Government and Foster, but at the enc
Of forty days the latter proposed 70 General 1one
an absolute exchange OF their irrespective prisoners
This proposition was agreed 20 Dy GENERA
Jones, and the exchange took place on the 80 o
August.
Our officers aro all In good health, notwitn
standing their long imprisonment ashore ant
ahoat. Many Of them are now in this city await
ing orders.
sSeAerai Edward johnson was captured at spott
sylvania Court House on the 18th Of May; Gene
raj Gardner was captured at Fort Hudson, ani
General Archer at Gettysburg.
General M. JEFF. Thompson, 10 whom we ar
indebted for most Of the information given above
was captured az Pocahontas, Arkansas, on tn
x2d of August last He was first sent 20 s
Louis thence 70 the Ohio Penitentiary, an
thence to Fort Delaware, Hilton Head, an
Vharieston
He Is in no wise worsted by his various i'm
Rlnionsments, Rli hat sound in health, and even NOR
at Z % me and patriotic fire than in his first can
eteN. en.s, NJ a, has received orders 10 report {
morrow. ~ "'N tV' '""' FN'FNN y
We must not omit 10 notice the fact tbst zinc
tnis experiment OF sending YaDkee officars
Charleston has turned out so aaoi iI f ~
our authorities have semi down siss A., =, ~ ~
20 be located in the same quarter cf ~ - IL
recently occupied by the fifty who n ho sne III Sn
exchanged. They have not yet been con voSo ~
TO their new and dangerous quarters but ave ~
ia prison which Is out Of range. r. r. Nv ~
General Thompson visited them before ieayj,
Charleston, aud recognized amongst them
nephew Of the late Secretary Chase, whom
had known in more peaceful and less perilo
times.
The fifty Yankee officers who have been Z
changed told our officers that during their %
hnemenf IN Charleston ,Dut one she'll had fall
fn the noi0H HbOFhOOd of their 0uarters- and n