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The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Movements of the enemy on our Southern coast--Pinckney Island in their possession. (search)
Movements of the enemy on our Southern coast--Pinckney Island in their possession. The Charleston Courier, of the 15th, has a dispatch from Bluffton, S. C., dated the 14th, inst., which we copy below: The enemy are in possession of Pinckney Island. They have seized all of the able bodied men on the plantations and carried them on board the fleet. This has created a panic among the others who are anxious to get away, but are prevented by force. The enemy have made no attempt asssion of Pinckney Island. They have seized all of the able bodied men on the plantations and carried them on board the fleet. This has created a panic among the others who are anxious to get away, but are prevented by force. The enemy have made no attempt as yet to land on the main. Yesterday our pickets at Buckingham were fired upon by a party in a launch at long tow without effect. We have not been able to ascertain their force, but it is represented by the negroes to be large.
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
Charleston Mercury, of the 22d, says: Our tidings from Port Royal are meagre.--The distance of Hilton Head from the mainland, and the hazardous nature of all navigation in the neighborhood, render it difficult for our forces to approach near enough to form any very definite idea of their number or movements. The Savannah Republican states, on good authority, that the enemy has abandoned Beaufort and Port Royal Island, on which it is situated, and are now confined to Hilton Head, Pinckney Island, immediately west, and separated from the former by Skull Creek, and the point known as Bay Point, on Jenkins' Island, across the Sound and opposite Fort Walker, on Hilton Head.--It is said that they are throwing up extensive and formidable works on Hilton Head, thus giving evidence of an intention to make a permanent lodgment on the island. Skull Creek is now completely under their control, and the works at Braddock's Point, on the south end of the island, command the entrance to Dauf
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