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The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
d in an hour. At 4 o'clock the fire opened on us from every direction, including a hidden battery. The fire opened with a volley from seventeen mortars firing ten inch shells, and shot from thirty-three guns, mostly columbiads. We took breakfast very leisurely. The command was divided into three watches, each under the direction of two officers. After breakfast, they immediately went to the guns and opened fire on Fort Moultrie, Cummings' Point, and Sullivan's Island Iron Battery.--Cummings' Point Battery was of immense strength, and most of our shot glanced off.--Major Anderson refused to allow the men to turn the guns on the parapet, on account of such a terrific fire being directed there. There was scarcely a room in Fort Moultrie left in a habitable condition, and several shots went through the Floating Battery, but it was but little damaged. Two guns on the Iron Battery were dismounted. A man was stationed, who cried shot or shell when the rebels fired, and the gar