June 2.
A gunboat came up
Folly river this morning on the flood about 9 A. M., shelled the battery of
Captain Chichester at Legare's Point, that of
Captain Warley, close to
Secessionville, and
Secessionville itself.
This place being then occupied by the
Eutaw battalion,
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles H. Simonton commanding; the Charleston battalion,
Lieutenant-Colonel P. C. Gaillard, commanding; the cavalry companies of
Captain W. L. Disher, and of
Captain----McKeiver, and being the headquarters of
Brigadier-General S. R. Gist, commanding on the island.
Our batteries responded vigorously.
No damage done by the enemy, except to a horse, which had his leg broken by a shell that passed through an outhouse just behind the general's headquarters and exploded.
After firing for about an hour the enemy withdrew.
No damage up to this time done by the enemy's firing,
except to horses.
Evening.--More than twenty vessels in sight off
Charleston bar and
Stono inlet and in
Stono river.
Enemy reported as
being on James' Island, at the point nearest Battery Island, and as having driven in our pickets.
Captain Carlos Tracy, volunteer aid to
General Gist, and
Lieutenant Winter, Wassamassaw cavalry, fired on while reconnoitering their position.
General Gist and
Captain Tracy repeatedly fired on same evening by enemy's advance guard.
This firing the first news in camp of enemy's landing.
