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The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource] 3 3 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], The bombardment of Galveston. (search)
informed, also, that some of the shells were found unexploded; but we cannot hear that any of the gallant Alden's missiles came nearer than the further part of Mr. League's new hotel lot, on Tremont street, south of the Bayou, or about half a mile from the Gulf.--This is considered by many as the range of the propeller's guns, from her nearest safe approach to the shore, opposite the beach batteries. The British Consul's residence is near Mr. League's, and his flag was flying, as it has been for a month, at an elevation that it can easily be seen at a great distance. Another consular flag was up, further in the city, northeast of Mr. League's, but tMr. League's, but the hostile shell paid no attention to them. Of course, a man who would fire at women and children would care but little for other observances of civilized warfare. A large number of people having collected on and near the sand-hills, a little to the eastward of the batteries, to gratify their curiosity, a shell fell among th