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The Daily Dispatch: October 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], Particulars of the fight near Charleston. (search)
teer Artillery, Captain Wm. Elliott, and an infantry company, who stubbornly and successfully contested the enemy's advance until the arrival of reinforcements. The others after wards engaged were Nelson's Virginia Battery, Morgan's Squadron of Cavalry, Major Abney's First Battalion of Sharpshooters, consisting of Captain Chisholm's company, Captain Allston's company, and Captain Buist's company. A deserter from one of the blockading steamers off Charleston, arrived in that city on the 27th.--The Courier gives the following report from him: Before be left he was acting as Assistant Quartermaster, and overheard a conversation between Capt. Dennison and another officer on the poop of his vessel, in which one of the officers stated that an attack on Charleston would be made on the arrival of two iron- clads and some additional vessels, with an expected reinforcement to the land forces of some seventeen thousand men. They expected to make the attack by land and water between