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The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], The siege of Charleston. (search)
aving been very effective. Our loss was five killed and nineteen wounded, among the latter of whom is Captain Roberts, of the 54th Georgia, whose hurt is reported mortal. The enemy opened on Monday, for the first time, a three hundred pound Parrott gun on Sumter. The bolts thrown by this gun are twenty-three inches long and ten inches in diameter. Their effect is far more powerful than those projected from the two hundred pounder. Three hundred shots were fired on Tuesday at the fort. otton bales. How effectual these new defences may be will be determined by the time this letter is before your readers. Effect of experimental fire on Sumter. From the experimental firing of one of our siege guns, a two hundred-pounder Parrott, and from the heavy guns of the navy, results have been attained of the most encouraging character. Five or six gaping craters in the gorge face and the southeast front attest the severity of the fire and the damaging effects of our heavy rife