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The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
tment, S. C. From the coast — the enemy's movements at port Royal. The Charleston Mercury, of the 22d, says: Our tidings from Port Royal are meagre.--The distance of Hilton Head from the mainland, and the hazardous nature of all navigation in the neighborhood, render it difficult for our forces to approach near enough to form any very definite idea of their number or movements. The Savannah Republican states, on good authority, that the enemy has abandoned Beaufort and Port Royal Island, on which it is situated, and are now confined to Hilton Head, Pinckney Island, immediately west, and separated from the former by Skull Creek, and the point known as Bay Point, on Jenkins' Island, across the Sound and opposite Fort Walker, on Hilton Head.--It is said that they are throwing up extensive and formidable works on Hilton Head, thus giving evidence of an intention to make a permanent lodgment on the island. Skull Creek is now completely under their control, and the works a