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The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], News from the coast — movements of the enemy. (search)
r of their gun-boats. Our pickets at Hudson's Landing were reported to have been driven in and the enemy landed a force of about 250 men. A detachment of the North Carolina Artillery and Colonel DeSaussure's regiment, had been ordered to reinforce our troops in that direction. We also learn from passengers by the Savannah road, of the crippling of another of the enemy's gun-boats Wednesday afternoon. A detachment of Captain Moore's North Carolina Artillery, under the command of Lieut. Baker, fired on one of these roving crafts at Buckingham Point, with good effect, and inflicting serious damage to the vessel. The wheel-house was knocked away, and the splinters were seen to fly in every direction. This vessel afterwards drifted with the tide towards Hilton Hand Shore, and is now lying up high and dry, completely disable. After running on shore, those on board sent up rockets as a signal of distress. The fancy craft returned our fire for a time, but without doing any damag