...ed at their approach. Thus the gunboats made their way slowly, carefully, up to a point within range of the Rebel batteries guarding the junction of Stono with Wappoo creek, barely three miles from Charleston , whose spires and cupolas were plainly visible, over the intervening trees, from the mast-heads of our vessels. But this bold advance of our gunboats, unsupported by infantry, was a blunder. Th...