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The Daily Dispatch: September 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the South. (search)
cted at our batteries, but afterwards they commenced throwing, their shells indiscriminately in every direction, nearly all falling short. Some came within a short distance of the city; some fell in the river, and some were seen to fall in DeSoto. Our batteries escaped injury, and nobody was hurt. Some old houses below the city were struck, but no serious damage done. The principal damage was the digging up of a patch of potatoes by the shells. A shell struck the residence of Mr. Victor F. Wilson, entering the northwest corner, and from thence to the cellar, where it exploded, tearing things to pieces generally, and coming out at the top of the building. We are informed that one of our citizens, a noncombatant, was wounded yesterday by the explosion of a shell. The mortar fleet opened on our batteries this morning at 6 o'clock, and kept up their fire at about the same rate as yesterday. Towards 10 o'clock the firing slackened considerably, and longer intervals of si