Show T HE FALL OT WAGN ek AND GREGG it was a truly forlorn hope that sumter ark arl bisy tasy proy pray botho to the fell swoop of gilmor es batteries abd and that tite tiit fall tail of that fated fortress would but bat be the fhe eventful erent fu prelude to the redaction adie arid capture pi af pf the impregnable b e fiand sand avor work k wagner vaguer the stratagem proved wholly ineffective it ig Is very joart ful now whether the complete suld suid occupation of sumter sunter bf the anlon union fors have haye expedited one whit theix theia triumphal access accession loir to the of fort I 1 Wag liew liev 1 we have to announced announce however tnt tha fall of wagner and as a resulting of G egg egr ev evau action allon Alion by private letters from froal morris wand iland dated stat slat u n athe t the statement was heralded th agh the country that though the federals had approached within ono ona hundred ami arul fifty atty yards yarda of wagner ft thay thy had bad dinst made nade the startups discovery that thit thu tho place was even more thad than a second ec ond Seba sebastopol sevastopol there being 4 tittle kuth b be item ilke th aad ami the pini pint whre the water bistre wa a fanio impossible an and 9 di carping capping p n nearly e ar I 1 3 0 o at kif aim that the place between them and the nemy enemy was so full of torpedoes burled buried in the ard and saki that making an assault was almost ho p until they were wera removed the above statement was waa a palpal pal pai awa aua falsehood as was waa suspected at the tina tine ot of hi he publication and aa as has been since fully substantiated by bath federal and confederate accounts on the ath dinst the richmond announce announced athe the entire evacuation ef of mortis island to the possession of the fedr Fedi federal ralp subsequent statements from federal official sources give no room for doubt aa as to tt tk 11 truth ot of the confederate announcement from southern sources we are further informed that wagner and gregg were furioni ly bombarded all day and far into the night at 0 the the casualties from which aee aen ax stated to have been a loss loas in killed kalle and ad I 1 wounded of about one hundred and fifty dieb men an attempt attempts continues the account publish eit til in lit the richmond of the jtb was mi mail mait to as assault siLt fort folt gregg greg g which wab waa repulsed betor before the federals had completed their landing they claim to hata hava made great hakac amo amon ng g the assailing boats b their grape and aid the final submission of the sebas sabas is stated by the tahi to have taku tabu place aiace alace during the night eight ct the CA gib oat oab an tha wise ise lse q quoting botin from the nhi dj pach daal data charleston 7 at dark on wednesday the enemy advanced their sappers up to the moat st of wagner anait being impossible to hold we t island liland longer beauregard ordered its evacuation ationo which was executed with success we spiked the guns of wagner wanner and gregg and withdrew noiselessly noisa lessly in 40 barges only ode barge containing lemco vlas captured yil il is quist quiet this morning Y the first intimation received rec ived by Gilmor gilmore abt tbt dut hits aib being leing left in sole and undisputed po iBB bbb lon ion slon of morris island ad an 0 cazo caze through brough a deserter ii it a dispatch from froni gen cen gilmore to MD gea halleck dated headquarters Depart departie me nt et the south sera 71 7 it la lit it aed tapi ahr L on thi tha night of the tl e F ath tb his bis sappers had bad crowned me tha crest of the of wagner t on its ita bea bex front all its ita guns and that an order to carry the th place by assault had heen been issued lo 10 commence at 9 next baard baarn ing that being the hour of low tide the captured bisp itches says saya gen gilmore show that wagner warner was commin dd by col keitt of south caroa carol C aroa arol ilaa ilna and garrisoned by fourteen hundred ne me a battery axe gragg 19 by botwen oae and two hundred fort wagner NY akner h hp says raya ia is a work bf 0 the mosi rosf rosi r formidable dable kind its ita bomb proof th ahe elterA lter iter capable oc ot holding 7 eighteen hund hundred rod man men remain in C intact after af ter the most moat terrible bomba bomea bombardment to mh mih ch th any worx work was oy V lor loc r it is admitted however that these work will iu b be 0 of no use to gen gilibert Gi linert ia in hit his operations against charleston thus one by ona one mastbe the be de fences of the harbor and city of charleston are forced to succumb but or r the city itself shall fall which Is capot ot now looked for all at once ite may be bader the painful necessity cf of chronicling chroni cling a be acena a ot of slaughter hitherto hith erac IA V e history of tb th is avar war fon for freedo frea doaa P 1 |