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The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], From the Potomac. (search)
egion, and one thirty-two. The compliment was not returned by Capt. Lee until the eighth shell fell around us, when we replied slowly and deliberately,--our guns, especially the 12-pounders made in Richmond, surpassing the expectation of the officers, compelling the Yankee vessel to withdraw entirely out of range in about half an hour's firing. However, with heavier mortars, they kept up an irregular cannonade for two days, but without doing the slightest injury to anybody or anything. Col. Hampton, while riding up to the battery, had himself and horse covered with dust by the explosion of a bomb in a few feet of him. This little affair was only what our boys, who spent the winter around Fort Sumter, call a "sky-rocket on the beach;" but bearings and design may be made manifest ere long — nor was it without immediate effect. The Colonel, on dress parade, commended in high terms the conduct of his command — the artillery for their steady aim and successful fire, which had closed the