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amer Monigault, for the purpose of observing our movements at Cumming's Point, and giving notice by rockets to their Morris Island batteries when to open fire on our transports. The military authorities having determined to capture or drive off these water pickets of the enemy. an expedition was formed with that view. About 8½ o'clock on Monday night Captain Sellers, with a detachment of thirty men from the 25th S. C. V. (Eutaw) Regiment, left Fort Johnston in two boats and rowed into Schooner Creek. About the same time Captain Warley, of the Navy, with two boats, manned by marines from the Confederate States steamers Chicors and Palmetto State, also approached the position in which it had been correctly supposed that the Yankee boats would be found. Captain Sellers's men having left their boats, deployed as skirmishers, wading knee deep, in the marsh. They soon encountered the enemy, who took to their boats (two in number) with all speed, and rowed rapidly off under a sharp fire