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The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Yankee Iron-Clad Navy--Admiral Dahlgren's opinion of monitors. (search)
rfare than any other officer of the navy: After conflicts. The operations of the iron-clads against Morris Island were appropriately closed by a severe contest with Fort Moultrie, Batteries Bee, Beauregard, &c., to relieve the Weehawken, which had grounded under their fire, and was finally got off with some severe injuries, owing to the falling tide having exposed the hull under the overhang. There were other occasions when severe conflicts occurred with the rebel works on Sullivan's Island. And besides the principal attacks in force there were few days from the first attack (July 10th) to its evacuation (September 7th ) that some Iron-clads or gunboats were not engaged in firing at the enemy's works, so as to facilitate the labor of our troops ashore, as will be perceived by the following sample from the record: Date --1863ObjectVess's engaged. July 18assault on WagnerMontank, Flag, Kaats kill, Nantucket, Weehauken, Patapson; gunboats Paul Janes, Ottawa, Sene
The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], A sad Incident. (search)
A sad Incident. --A wife of one of the soldiers on Sullivan's Island recently visited him in camp, and carried with her delicacies from home. Shells had not been thrown on the Island for two or three days; but while the lady, was sitting in the midst of a group of friends the enemy opened, and the very first missile descended and exploded in her lap, killed two men around her, mortally wounding another, fore off one of her arms, her limbs, and shattered her entire frame. Strange to say, she lingered several days in this agonize condition, and finally died in the hospital
The Daily Dispatch: July 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ed to Big Shanty from in front of Gen. Hardee's Corps — their loss along the line of that corps is estimated at four thousand, and about the same in front of Gen. Loring's. The Yankee Generals Dan. McCook and Harker were certainly killed. Charleston. The latest advices we have from Charleston are to the 25th ult, the three hundred and fifty third day of the "siege." Matters were progressing pretty much as usual, and the city and Fort Sumter continued to hurl back defiance to the insolent foe. Fifty-six shots were fired at the city during the twenty-four hours ending at six o'clock on the previous evening. A desultory fire had also been kept up between battery Gregg and our batteries on Sullivan's and Janies Islands. Heavy firing was heard in the direction of Stono, which was believed to have been the enemy's gunboats shelling Secessionville. The working parties work still busy on the lower batteries and battery Wagner. There had been no further change in the fleet.
The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
He gazed at the ruins with satisfaction and pleasure, not unmixed with melancholy, for yonder, beneath the sands of Morris island, his beloved commander was lying — his colonel, his general, his brother officer, fellow soldier. It is a pity he was not there on Saturday to raise the flag upon the work; but he was on duty elsewhere. "For four long years the cannon of Sumter have hurled their iron bolts against the rights of man; but the contest there is ended. The strong earthworks on Sullivan's and Johnson's islands, the batteries in the harbor, Castle Pinckney and Fort Ripley, those in the city erected by slaves, are useless now and forever, except as monuments of folly and wickedness. As I stood there upon the ruins of Sumter, looking down into the crater, the past, like a panorama, was unrolled, exhibiting the mighty events which will forever make it historic ground. The silent landing of Major Anderson at the postern gate, the midnight prayer and solemn consecration of the
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