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The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Bombardment of Port Royal — Another Barbarity of the War. (search)
Bombardment of Port Royal — Another Barbarity of the War. Port Royal, Caroline county, Va, December 16, 1862. Our hitherto quiet and pleasant village can now contribute an item to the history of the barbarities of the present war. Although four steam gunboats had been lying opposite us for several days, and the banksrsday evening, the 4th inst., while quietly partaking of our dinner, we heard the beaming of a cannon placed by Gen. Hill on an eminence about three miles below Port Royal. We rushed out on the river's bank to witness the engagement. Two of the gunboats soon returned the fire, and then fired a broadside of grapeshot, and 11 inchg broadside, steamed down the river to a place of safety. No outrage committed during the war has been more barbarous and more cowardly than the bombardment of Port Royal. The enemy well knew that the place was inhabited chiefly by women and children. They could see them walking in the streets at the very moment of the attack.