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From Port Royal.

--A dispatch dated Savannah, Ga., July 3d, gives the following information given by two Confederate prisoners who arrived there from Port Royal under a flag of truce:

‘ They report that 550 wounded Yankees are now at Port Royal, who were brought from James's Island after the Secessionville fight. Some of the heavy guns had been taken from Fort Pulaski to be used on James's Island. The Yankees are dying rapidly at Port Royal, numbers being buried every day, and much sickness among them. All last week the Federal officers were striving to make the Confederate prisoners take the oath of allegiance, but could not succeed. A large force was at Hilton Head.

The Yankee troops at Port Royal, speech of their next movement as being likely to be made against the Charleston and Savannah Railroad. Several regiments from James's Island had arrived at Hilton Head. Bunter is in command at Hilton Head. He has a regiment called ‘"the negro brigade,"’ armed and uniformed in the same manner as the Yankees.

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