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The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], The siege of Charleston. (search)
he impenetrable armor of our iron clade, or hurls a shell in the direction of the land battery, and occasionally there is a report coming from the direction of James Island, showing that Gen. Gilmore is keeping close watch and ward over any flecking movements that may be attempted by the enemy. He is also assisted in this work byw rebel works. During the engagement we discovered a new sight which the few preceding days had created. Nothing less than two strong looking batteries on James Island, away over beyond the low land of Morris Island, and in the rear of Fort Johnson by a mile or more. They had already assumed formidable proportions, and the ms and immediately in front is Wagner, with its sides, though bearing some appearance of shape, yet torn and ragged. Over the low land of Morris Island, and on James Island beyond, are the two batteries which the hands of treason have recently built. A little farther beyond and to the right is Fort Johnson, and to the right o