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ew up four rams which were in the inner harbor, near to the city. I noticed only one private house in flames. I was told that the owner applied the torch a few minutes before the rebels left the city. General Hardee was in command, and by his order two thirteen-inch Blakely guns on a wharf battery were bursted. The remaining guns, six in number, mounted on the wharf batteries, were spiked, and the carriages disabled. The first one of our men who entered the city was Lieutenant-Colonel A. G. Bennett, Twenty- first United States colored troops, who arrived about half an hour after the last of the rebel forces had left. He was followed by Colonel Ames, of the Third Rhode Island artillery. The city is now held by troops sent over from James and Morris islands. Captain H. M. Bragg, of General Gillmore's staff, went over to Fort Sumter in a small boat, and planted the American colors on the parapet. In Sumter are nine guns, four columbiads and five howitzers. Captain Br