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The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], Matters at Charleston. (search)
osition, had been inactive, excepting whenever fired upon from-the fort they immediately returned the fire, but always took good care to move further off. The casualties were one man killed. Maj. Jas. McCauley, in preparing to go from the fort to another battery, had his carriage struck and one of his horses killed. On Sunday neither the monitors nor the Morris Island batteries opened on the fort. The mortar shelling of Fort Sumter continues severe, and without any intermission, from Cummings's Point batteries. During Saturday night the number of rifled shots fired was ninety eight, of which thirty-nine missed, and two hundred and nineteen mortar shells, of which ninety missed. On Sunday sixteen rifled shots were fired, of which six missed, and three hundred and twenty mortar shells, of which fifteen missed. A Story of two captured Massachusetts negroes. Two Yankee negroes, captured by Major Jenkins's pickets on North Edisto, while out oystering last Thursday, were br