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out one hundred men. They also expected to be able to go through the breach without difficulty or having to climb over. The night was misty and favorable for a close approach without notice. Their calculations, they say, all proved incorrect. About fifty marines from the United States steamer Powhatan form the greater majority of the prisoners taken.--They state also that the monitor ashore during the fight Tuesday was the Wechawken, the same vessel that took the lead in the attack on the 7th of April. They admit that the fire from Sullivan's Island in the last fight was very accurate, one of the monitors having been struck on the turret twenty-nine times, without, they say, doing any damage. One monitor had her smoke stack blown off entirely. The Ironsides was struck fifty times without, they say, inflicting any serious damage. The prisoners manifest a great deal of confidence in the ability of General Gill more to take the city. So confident were they of success in th