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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 45 (search)
ernoon the land batteries re-opened their fire heavily upon the fort, cutting deeply into the gorge wall and adding much to the damage of the north-western face, and disabling a ten-inch columbiad. By night the enemy had thrown nine hundred and forty-eight shot, of which four hundred and forty-five struck outside; two hundred and severity passed over. Battery Wagner, which received its full share of the enemy's fire, was but little damaged; but sustained a serious loss in the death of Captain Wampler, of the engineers, a gallant and accomplished officer, who was killed by a shell from the enemy's fleet while faithfully performing his arduous duties. Battery Cheves was opened on the morning of the seventeenth, at nine o'clock, with four eight-inch columbiads and four eight-inch navy guns on ship carriages. The fire was kept up throughout the day with the columbiads at the enemy's works on Morris Island, and working parties in the marsh, having the effect of annoying the former and