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The Daily Dispatch: November 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sabbath Discourse. (search)
om the enemy. To-day the wind blows a gale from the Southward and Westward, and the attack is unavoidably postponed. I have the honor to be, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant, S. F. Flag Officer Command'g South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Hon. Gideon Wells, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, Flag Ship Wabash, off-hilton Head, Port Royal Harbor, Nov. 8, 1861. Sir: I have the honor to inform you that yesterday I attacked the enemy's batteries on Bay Point and Hilton Head--Forts Beauregard and Walker--and succeeded in silencing them after an engagement of four hours duration and driving away the squadron of Confederate steamers, under Commodore Tatnall. The reconnaissance of yesterday made us acquainted with the superiority of Fort Walker, and to that I directed my special effort, engaging it at a distance of first eight, and afterwards six hundred yards. But the plan of attack brought the squadron sufficiently near Fort Beauregard to receive its fire,