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The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], The bombardment of Galveston. (search)
dren 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 them, apparently directed for that purpose, cutting one man in two, and carrying away most of his body between the shoulders and hips, and exploding about the same time. Some two or three others were slightly wounded with the pieces, one of whom is a son of Mr. Menard, our worthy Deputy Collector. The name of the man killed was Frank Sylva, an Italian or Portuguese, whose occupation. we understand, was selling fruits, &c. The remainder of his body was buried the same evening. This, we believe, was all the harm that was done by the first attempt to bombard our city. The firing continued about half an hour — Some of the shells measured ten inches in diameter, and must have been thrown by a sixty-eight pounder — said to be the steamer's pivot gun.