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The Daily Dispatch: November 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], North Carolina. (search)
d in coming up with two of the enemy's boats below Johnsonville, which gave us a few shots and retired. During the cover of darkness, last night, Colonel Rucker put one of his regiments in position on the river banks, near the town, and also Captain Morton, with his splendid battery. At early dawn this morning three gunboats commenced throwing out "feelers," and to their sorrow they found out where the rebels were. The bottom opposite Johnsonville is almost impassable, but the perseveed in gaining the river bank immediately opposite the town, under a heavy fire from the enemy's boats and land batteries, and for two hours the hills and hollows for miles along the Tennessee river resounded with the roar of cannon and musketry. Morton's guns set the transports (seven in all) on fire, and pretty soon the entire wharf was in flames. The enemy had four large siege pieces on a hill just back of the town, which continued to shell the woods for miles along the banks, but Rucker cou