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The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], The firing into Charleston. (search)
s back, was in many respects a God send. It afforded a resting place for Yankee shells — It afforded debris, &c., enough to obstruct six harbors like ours — and material enough for the case work of batteries, bomb proofs, &c., innumerable. I took a stroll through the portion of the city exposed to the shells, two days since. It was an instructive and interesting stroll, though one necessitating some exposure. My way lay first up East Bay to Broad, up Broad to King, up King to Haxel, down Hazel to the Bay and back. Splintered glass, scattered bricks, large holes in the pavement, the perfect desolation and silence of death, all marked the spot as well deserted. No foot fall, save my own, awoke the leaches in the cheerless streets — and when once again I neared the precincts of a busy, breathing population. I sighed, as heaving a mighty weight from my breast. The effect of the shells there is no denying are serious and destructive. But very few strike the houses, and at this rat<