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The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Burnside Expedition. (search)
ing broadside on, have to. Then we showed a light, and our captain asked, "What steamer is that?" "The United States steamer Oriental, with troops for Port Royal." "What are you doing at Charleston, then?" "We didn't know we were so close in shore," was the reply. "Send your captain aboard" The captai frozen. We put them in the engine-room, and when thoroughly thawed out they gave a great deal of information of such importance, that the captain sent them to Port Royal at once, and also sent with them the prisoners taken from the Emily St. Pierre, who had been on board since her capture. One of the negroes is a blacksmith and the woman is his wife. He was at Port Royal when we attacked that place, and has been engaged in the rebel Government machine shops. He was inside of FortSumter yesterday. He says they have eighty guns there, of which the largest calibre are eight-inch. So our eleven-inch guns are better than any they have. He also says that