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The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Charleston. (search)
hoped that the mystery will soon be solved and the battery silenced. Our land batteries were very active throughout the night, but whether their fire was directed at this Yankee will of the wisp or at the batteries on Morris Island, we have not been able to learn. The contest on Monday was carried on entirely by the land batteries; the fleet, which has not changed in number since Sunday, remaining perfectly quiet. The Parrott guns of the enemy continued to play both on Sumter and Wagner, but with less vigor than has been displayed on any previous day of the siege. Up to 6 o'clock P. M., but 120 shots had been fired at Sumter. Our batteries on James Island took their usual share of the work. The last reports from Sumter state that there were but one hundred and fifty shots in all fired at that fort on Monday. The wind was so high that the enemy chose rather to husband their shot than fling them away. A very rough sea kept the fleet in inactivity.--There were no casu
The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Major General John B. Floyd. (search)
city. Charleston, Aug. 25. --The enemy's land batteries have been maintaining a steady fire on Sumter all day. The fighting at Wagner was chiefly confined to the firing of our pickets on the enemy's suppers, who continue to approach Wagner. This evening, about dark, the enemy's batteries opened a furious fire on Wagner, preparatory, as was supposed, to an assault. The following official dispatch has just been received from Fort Sumter: 7:35 P. M.--There is an assaultWagner, preparatory, as was supposed, to an assault. The following official dispatch has just been received from Fort Sumter: 7:35 P. M.--There is an assault now being made on battery Wagner. (Signed) Alfred Rhett, Colonel Commanding. Fort Johnson, 7:45 P. M.--The enemy is assaulting battery Wagner, evidently in heavy force. (Signed) C. H. Olnstead, Colonel Commanding. The musketry has cased. The enemy is firing a few mortar shells at battery Wagner. The first assault has been repulsed. No more shells have been thrown into the city since daylight on Monday morning.