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The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Shelling Charleston. (search)
Shelling Charleston. --The Charleston Mercury, of Thursday, says: The weary spell of rain, cold and endless mud, through which we are passing, seems in no wise to diminish the ardor with which Gen. Gillmore's artillerists maintain their fire upon the hated "cradle of the rebellion." Wednesday was another day of continuous bombardment. Throughout Tuesday night the loud rushing sound and final crash of the shells was incessant, and the dismal dawn of yesterday was ushered in by the same terrible music. We have no authentic statement of the number of shots fired against the city. One account gives the number fired between six o'clock Tuesday morning and six o'clock Wednesday evening at one hundred and sixty, but this estimate is probably much below the mark. The fire is still kept up apparently from two guns only--one 100 pounder Parrott rifle and a small Wiard rifle. The shots from the former are the only ones that can be heard for any considerable distance. The i