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The Daily Dispatch: October 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], Yankee history of the attempts to blow up the Ironsides — Excitement Ashore. (search)
he various camps, and each regiment was drawn up in line on the beach. Fort Gregg was reinforced, orderlies were dispatched to Wagner — the telegraph not being in working order — to learn if anything was known there, but, strange to say, neither officers nor garrison had heard a sound at all unusual. In vain did we look for signals; not a light appeared save those suspended on the rigging of the vessels off the coast. Both Gen. Gilmore and Admiral Dahlgren were signaled — the former at Folly Island, and the latter on his flag-ship, which lay at anchor in the inlet, although the sea all through the day had hardly power enough in it to crawl up the beach, but fawned upon the bright sands and licked them with its wet, sparkling lips. "Had Rowan been attacked? " "Had the rebels the hardihood to attempt to board the Ironsides?" "What does it all mean?" These and similar inquiries were made rather in the light of suggestion and speculation than with the hope of gathering a solution of the<