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The Daily Dispatch: September 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Yankees in Northwestern Virginia. (search)
nside the bar seven iron-clads, three sloops-of-war, three gunboats, and six mortar schooners, which were all more or less engaged on different, and sometimes on the same days,--The Charleston Courier, of Thursday, says: The bombardment of Fort Sumter, Tuesday night, by six monitors and the Ironsides, was by far the most severe attack, and of longer duration, than any previous attempts made for the reduction of the fortress. The engagements of the present siege, and that of the 7th of April, 1863. were nothing in comparison with the fight of Tuesday night. The incessant roar of heavy cannon had the effect of rousing our citizens from their beds and burying them to positions at White Point Garden, which was soon thronged by anxious spectators. The attack commenced about half-past 11, the monitors coming up within eight and thirteen hundred yards of Fort Moultrie, and opening a terrific fire on the east wall or sea face of Fort Sumter. Fort Moultrie and our batteries on Su