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The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], Matters at Charleston. (search)
, in accordance with orders from headquarters to receive no more flags of truce. The shelling of Fort Moultrie on Friday and Saturday was very heavy from battery Gregg, and for a few hours on Saturday was terrific. But few shells fell in the fort. The monitors, though occupying their usual position, 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 Su