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The Daily Dispatch: January 11, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
States Government? Military movements in Charleston — fatal Accident. The Charleston papers of Wednesday furnish the following items of news: On Monday night, shortly after 10 o'clock, as one of the sentinels at Castle Pinckney was going his rounds, he was approached by a person at the time unknown. The sentinel presented his musket in the act of challenging him, when the piece unfortunately went off, and the stranger immediately fell. On examination, it proved to be private R. L. Holmes, of the Carolina Light Infantry. The ball had taken effect in the left side, under the shoulder, traversing both lungs, and inflicting a wound from the effects of which he survived only 20 minutes. Up to one o'clock last night, when our reporter left the vicinity of Fort Sumter and Morris' Island, all was quiet in our harbor.--The guard boats were actively plying up and down the entrance, overhauling every unknown craft. The rumors that the Star of the West would make her appe