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The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 19 (search)
There are those who are sanguine enough to predict that he will. But battery Wagner still holds out, shot and shell making notorious impression upon the sand of which the works are composed. The garrison and its supporting force can be relieved or strengthened from Charleston at will, and it cannot be flanked from the adjoining islands, as fortifications equally formidable have been constructed there, or are in progress of construction--three thousand negroes having been called for by Gov. Bonham for that purpose, in addition to those already actively at work. More than thirty days have elapsed since the Federal troops landed on Morris Island; two seesaws upon Battery Wagner have been made, and both were repulsed with such severs loss that correspondents inform us there will be no further attempt to carry that work by storm. To take it by sieges is a slow and exhausting process at best. It is believed, however, that although Battery Wagner may hold out for a long time to co