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The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
nd — Scenes in the city, &c. [special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Charleston, April 15. For a "special correspondent," who arrives on the scene twenty hours after the "special" occasion is ended, there remain only a few scraps of intelligence to communicate, and they are not new. This morning a boat from the city went down to Fort Sumter, and the excursionists on board had a very good opportunity of viewing the scene of the late fight. As you leave the city you find Castle Pinkney on your left — a low, circular fortification, painted a bright yellow. On the narrow ledge around it are seen several awkward squads drilling, their officers trotting them around at a rapid rate. Those soldiers sent to this fort are chiefly recruits who are drilled for the lower points in the harbor. But a few moments elapse before you have a good view of Fort Sumter; but how changed. All the chimneys that rose above the walls of the fort are shattered, and there is not a square yard, h