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The Daily Dispatch: September 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Six hundred dollars Reward. (search)
The enemy's Torpedoes at Charleston. --On Sunday night last the enemy attempted an attack on Fort Johnson, in Charleston harbor, with the aid of a torpedo. The Courier gives the following account of the failure: "About nine o'clock Sunday night a terrific explosion, which shook the buildings in this city, took place. Many supposed it to be a two hundred-pounder Parrott time-fuse shell. It appears, however, that about nine o'clock some musketry firing was heard at Fort Sumter. Upon examination, Captain Magainin discovered that the firing was about two hundred yards from the fort, in the direction of Fort Johnson. The firing continued a few seconds only, when three Yankee barges were seen coming in towards the west face. Captain Lewis, with a detachment of the Thirty-second Georgia, mounted the parapet and opened a fire of small arms upon the parties, but had not fired more than one or two rounds before a tremendous explosion occurred about thirty feet from the west fa