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The Daily Dispatch: September 4, 1863., [Electronic resource], The siege of Charleston. (search)
detachments of the 61st North Carolina, 23d Georgia, and 20th South Carolina, from Morris Island to another part of the harbor. It had reached a position, coming in outside of Fort Sumter, when, by some unfortunate blunder, it was fired upon by Moultrie. A shot passed through its hull, causing it partially to sink, killing at the same time five men, and wounding several others. Many of the men endeavored to escape by swimming, and of these, twenty it is said were drowned. Barges were sent to the rescue, and six hundred were saved from the wreck. From a letter found in the mail bag of the gunboat Ottawa, evidently written by an officer, we learn that a Whitworth gun burst in one of the shore batteries a few days previous to the date of the letter, killing a number of blue jackets. A one hundred pounder Parrott, rifled, also burst on board the gunboat Mahaska. The gun of the Ottawa has been fired five hundred times, and is obliged to be nursed with wet cloths when hot.