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The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Siege of Charleston. (search)
that you actually did open fire and throw a number of the most destructive missiles ever used in war, into the midst of a city taken unawares, and filled with sleeping women and children, will give you a "bad eminence" in history — even in the history of this war. I am only surprised, sir, at the limits you have set to your demand. If in order to attain the abandonment of Morris Island and Fort Sumter you feel authorized to fire on this city, why did you not also include the works on Sullivan's and James's Island — nay, even the city of Charleston, in the same demand? Since you have felt warranted in inaugurating this method of reducing batteries in your immediate front which were found otherwise impregnable, and a mode of warfare which I confidently declare to be atrocious and unworthy of any soldier, I now solemnly warn you that if you fire again on this city from your Morris Island batteries, without granting a somewhat more reasonable time to remove non-combatants, I sh