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The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
ineer bureau at Washington, after a careful survey pronounced most positively against the practicability of an attack on Pulaski, stating that there is not old iron enough in America to take that fort. Gen. Totten, long the head of the entire enginlship of a higher grade than belongs to the strict department of engineering. As for what is to come, the experience of Pulaski can only give us confidence, without determining specific results, the conditions of the problem being so different. Sumter is farther off from Gen. Gillmore's batteries than was Pulaski; it is of stone instead of brick, and is additionally protected by tiers of cotton bales. On the other hand, Gen. Gillmore has much heavier and better ordnance than he had at PulasPulaski, and more batteries, besides having the aid of the iron-clads. The balance of the conditions is believed to be not against the present undertaking, but experience alone can settle the question. But Gen. Gillmore and his gallant troops, as w