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The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], The siege of Charleston. (search)
lina and 54th Georgia regiments, and was repulsed after an hour's fighting.--Our batteries on James Island did much execution upon the enemy during the fight. Our loss was five killed and nineteen woin the repulse of the Yankees; it is believed with no little loss. Battery Gregg and the James Island batteries lent material aid in the successful defence of the disputed ground. The fire of baommenced to bombard Wagner with great fury. Fort Wagner, battery Gregg, and the batteries on James Island, replied with equal vigor, and for the space of an hour the fiercest cannonade which has takeextreme front. A New rebel Gallery opened. At 8 o'clock in the morning the rebels on James Island opened a new work upon our trenches. Although its existence had been suspected, no definite the matter was left to us. A second gun was also opened from the battery next to Simpkins, on James Island, which had already one piece firing on us for some days past; but neither of them inflicted a