Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1862., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Page's Point (South Carolina, United States) or search for Page's Point (South Carolina, United States) in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], Interesting from the coast. (search)
upon the coast have continued so long unchanged that little of interest presented itself worthy to be communicated to you until Wednesday morning, when the Federal forces on Port Royal Island effected a lodgment upon the mainland under the cover of the guns of their fiest of small steamers. It appears now, by the most authentic accounts which I have obtained from eye witnesses of the affair, that two simultaneous attacks were made, the one below the Ferry, on a small, uncompleted work at Page's Point, which had not received its armament, and was defended by two companies only of Dunnovant's Regiment, and two light guns of Capt. Leake's Virginia field battery. After expending considerable time in vigerous shelling of the position and all neighboring coverts which could shelter our troops, they landed, made a reconnoissances and subsequently retired to their gun-boats. At the same time a more determined and more serious demonstration was made on the main above the Ferry by a number of