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The Daily Dispatch: July 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Impossibility of Johnston saving Vicksburg (search)
The siege of Charleston. This is the eleventh day of the siege of Charleston, and it is still progressing slowly. On Wednesday there was nothing new except a reconnaissance on Morris's Island, in which we lost 14, killed, wounded, and missing.--Capt. Paul H. Waring was killed on the same day by the Yankee sharpshooters. On Thursday the gunboats continued their bombardment of Battery Wagner during the whole day, and about six o'clock in the evening a monitor was towed into position and opened fire. On James's Island a reconnaissance in force was made by the Confederates to ascertain the force of the Federal on the lower end of the island, which was believed to consist of several regiments of negroes. The Charleston Courier gives an account of this attack: The troops were in position at early dawn, and soon afterwards the Twenty-fifth--better known as the Entaw Regiment, under command of Colonel Simonton--which had been thrown forward as skirmishers, engaged the strong pick