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The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Progress of the War. (search)
all and schooner-rigged, having sounded and buoyed out Stone Inlet, crossed the bar about ten o'clock on Tuesday morning. One of them, while passing in, got aground, and remained so; the three others succeeded-in entering the harbor, and immediately opened a vigorous fire of shell upon Cole's Island. Previous to the appearance of the gunboats, our defensive works on Cole's Island had, by order of Gen. Pemberton, been dismantled, and the guns removed. When the enemy had opened the attack Col. Capers, the commander of the post, carrying out his instructions, burned, the barracks out down the flagstaff, and with his forces evacuated the Island. The enemy's gunboats, finding that our men had retreated, steamed slowly up the river, keeping up a rapid fire of random shells on either side as they advanced, and finally anchored near Battery Island and Legareville. Upon the approach of the gunboats, our positions on Battery Island were also evacuated and the quarters burned. The Cou