The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-25

August 1o-Ifyou could win have them re-
replace them (Whitworth placed Immediately.
guns) with s-inch guns,
and 300 or 400 rounds OF
ammunition for each gun
it would help US greatly
August H-My ap- will try TO DO 80.
proaches to Wagner are
suspended on account OF
the annoyance from the
enemys sharpshooters
Can you not stop it?
August N-The fire | am now going TO
from wagner Is very gall move up With the monl-
ing. tors.
August % Wagner will send up two
has opened heavy lire three monitors az once.
our works Unless the
navy succeed in silencing
them, there is great dam
ger OF their dlsmountlng
August 22-Col Tur- orIers have peen
ner telegraphs from given, aud the monitors
the front that, unless the are moving up
navy opens speedily, two
of our guns will certainly
be dsmounted.
August 23-Can you let can let you have $50
me have some 10C-pound- shell and 100 shot, also,
er Parrott shells / am 100 Schenkl shells. = :;
entirely out
August 27-Can l take You can take the guns.
another S-inch gun and
100-pounder Parrott from
your vessels?
All OF these were outside OF the ordinary work of
cooperation and were at times pressing that the
request repeated before the iron-cads could get
up their anchors and steam into position
WHAT THE NAVY ACTUALLY DID.
Some idea may be formed of what the nays did
contribute to the reduction Of Morris Island from
the following summary
Engdqenents Of the United States Vessels OF Charles
ton Nth Rebel Forts and Batteries in the Course of
Ttco Months Operations
July 10-Wth Fort Wagner; monitors Kaatskil
Qlag ship, Montauk, Nahant, Weehawken.
July 1l-Fort Wagner; monitors Kaatskn nag
shipl Montauk, Nahant, Weehawken.
July 1S-Fort Wagner during the assaulD; moni-
tors MOntauk (nag-ship), Kaatsknl, Nantucket Wee
hawken, Patapsco; frigate New Ironsides gunooats
Paul Jones, Ottawa, seneca, Wissahickon.
July 20-Fort Wagner iron-clad frigate Ironsides.
July 22-Fort Wagner; monitor Nantucket gun
July 24-Fort Wagner; to cover the advance of our
shore batteries monitors Weehawken (nag-ship),
ironsldes; gunboats Paul Jones, Seneca, Ottawa,
July 25-Fort Wagner; gunboats Ottawa, Dali
July 2s-Fort Wagner; monitors weehawken,
Kaatskill; 1at /; gum @gunb0at } Ottawa: ~ ,uua,,o. y,
july so~Fort Wagner; iron clads 1ronsldes, Kaat-
skill, Patapsco; gunboat Ottawa.
July 91-Fort Wagner and other batteries on Nor
ris Island; gunboat ottawa
August Fort Wagner; ron-clads Montauk, Pa
tapsco, kaatskill, Weehawken, Passac, Nahant;
genboat Narblehead.
August 2-Fort Wagner gunboats Ottawa, Mar
blehead.
August Fort Wagner; monitor Montauk; gun
August 6NFort Wagner; gunboat Marblehead.
August Sort Wagner; gunooats Ottawa, Mar
blehead, Mahaska w.,
Patapsco, Kaatskill.
August l8wFort Wagner and other batteries on
!
August i4mFort Wagner and other batteries on
Morris Island; gunboats Wissahckon, Mahaska,
ottawa, Da-Ching mortar-boats Racer, Dan
| Smith.
August l1-Fort Wagner and other Rebel bat
teries Morris Island, IN order to divert their fire
from our land batteries, which were pounding Fort
Sumter; iron-c ads Weehawken (nagship), r on
sides, Montauk, Nahant, Kaatskill Passaic, Pa
| IOdOna
cipated by General Gilmore; iron,clads Ironsides,
August 19-Fort Wagner; iron,clad Ironsides.
August 20-Batteries on Morris Island iron-clad
Ironsides; gunboats Mahaska, Ottawa, Dai-Ching,
August Efforts Sumter and Wagner; IRON
clads Ironsdes, Pdtapsco; gunboats Mahaska, Dali
August 22-Fort Wagner; iron-clads weehawken,
August 28~Fort Sumter might attack; IRON
clads Ironsdes, Weehawken (nag-ship) Montauk
Passaic, Patapsco, Nahant.
August 91-Fort Moultrie; monters Passac, Pa
Sept, Sept. j. iSss~Fort Sumter and obstructons in
channel might attack; iron-clads Weehawken
qnag-ship), Montauk, Passaic, Pataps' 20, Nahant,
Sept. 2--Battery Gregg and Fort Sumter; iron
Sept. b~Between Sumter and Battery Gregg;
iron-clads Ironsides Lehigh, Nahant.
Sept. 6--Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg; IRON
clads Ironsides, Patapsco, Lehigh' Nahant Mon
Sept. Fort Mouitrie and batteries on Sullivan's
Island; iron-clads lronsides Qagshipl Patapsco,
Sept. Sort Moultre and batteries on Sullivans 6
Island, to cover the Weehawken (ashOre); iron.
clads Ironsides, Patapsco, Lehigh Nahant, Mon
tauk. Passaic disabled.
Amounting to "a days out of 60 in which the
squadron was engaged with batteries or great
strength and continued through more or less OF the
day. In two or three instances the actions oc
Cured at night. Besides these frequent contests
with the heavy works OF the enemy, the never
ceasing preparation and activity inseparable from
sidered, as well as vtgilant eye 10 the movements
OF the Rebel iron-clads, ready to use the first un
guarded moment-especally at night-which re
All of this to be sustained within the contracted
limits of ron-clads, and under the sweltering heat
formed, and never understood appreciated eX
cept by those who bore part In it.
THE ABANDONMENT OF MORRIS ISLAND.
The end came with the abandonment OF Morris
Island and there also practically concluded the join
operation OF the two arms In front OF Charleston
as arranged between the commanding military ant
naval officers early In July. No further plans being
proposed by the former the Admiral in the absenc;
Of any positive Instructions in regard to indepen
dent movement, was left TO his own judgment and
his own resources
The enemy had rightly appreciated the conse-
quences Of our being established on Morris Island
On the 10th OF july sooner or LATER the rest OF Morris
Island must be given up, and in all probability sum
ter also. But so long as this could be postponed was
there opportunity OF substituting other deenses fol-
those thus lost, which fully effecte before we
had possession Of the island. Fort Johnson and
other interior works were added or improved, and
the Sullivans Island batteries made very fOrmida-
ble Even the ruin OF Sumter retained, contrary
to all expectation. On the other hand the naval
resources had been materially impaired, the decks
Of the monitors had been badly scored by heavy
shot, their side armor damaged, their bottoms so
covered with grass and shells as to reduce the
speed to the lowest available rate, and the boilers
less able to raise or to bear steam. One OF them had
haa m fha n no