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The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
An incident at the forts. --At an early hour yesterday morning, while the gunners were firing blank cartridges from the guns of the Iron Battery at Cumming's Point, one of the guns loaded with ball, the men not being aware of the fact, was discharged. The ball struck the wharf of Fort Sumter, close to the gate. This, it appears, caused some excitement in the garrison of Sumter, for three or four of the ports fronting Cumming's Point were soon after thrown open. No warlike reply to the se to the gate. This, it appears, caused some excitement in the garrison of Sumter, for three or four of the ports fronting Cumming's Point were soon after thrown open. No warlike reply to the unintentional shot was given, however, and about two hours afterwards a boat was sent over to explain the occurrence to Major Anderson. The Major received the message in good part, and thus the matter ended, after having caused no little talk at the harbor forts and in the city. --Charleston Mercury.
The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sudden death. (search)
un at Fort Pickens in a few days, or weeks at most, Lincoln's Cabinet would be blown up in two monts, and that we should have no other State in the Southern Confederacy. We shall see. You will see in the Mercury of to-day, a very correct plan of Charleston harbor. If you will take your stand in the middle of the point of the city, with your face towards Fort Sumter, you will have the harbor laid out before you. You will see Morris' Island, with its point nearest to Sumter, called Cumming's Point. On that Point there are three batteries of the most formidable kind, and from there to a little beyond the "Star of the West," there are ten others, all mounted for the most part with the heaviest ordnance. On Sullivan's Island there are two others, beside Fort Moultrie. Near Mount Pleasant there is another. On James' Island, at Fort Johnson, is another. I am sure it would be impossible for any number of vessels to pass these batteries. I understand that very extensive prepar
The Daily Dispatch: April 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ring took place, a boat from Fort Sumter visited Morris' Island, sent by Major Anderson to make inquiry into the cause of the vessel having been shot at, and also to request permission for his boat to proceed to the schooner; and it is reported that the boat did go to the suspicious vessel, but of this we have no certain information. It is also said that one of the officers in the boat from Fort Sumter stated that Major Anderson's batteries would probably pay their respects to those on Cumming's Point before morning.-- About six o'clock last evening the steamer Gen. Clinch, with Lieut. T. B. Huger, was sent from the city to look after the schooner and investigate her character; but, after proceeding some distance down the channel, they were unable to discover anything of her, and suppose that she had gone to sea. As the wind was blowing very strong from the northeast, she will, no doubt, take a southerly course. Other facts. The suspicious part of the whole proceeding is, th
The Daily Dispatch: April 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], The armament in Charleston harbor. (search)
attery of three 10-inch mortars and two 32pounders. West of Fort Moultrie, at about two hundred yards distance from the fort, a battery of two 10-inch mortars has been erected; and an enfilade battery of two 32 and 24pounders has been erected at a point of Sullivan's Island nearest to Fort Sumter. Besides these on Sullivan's Island, there are two12-pounder guns and a full field-battery of artillery at Breach Inlet, at the extreme Eastern point of the Island. On Morris' Island, at Cummings' Point, a battery of four mortars has been erected.-- Near this, a battery of three 8-inch columbiads, covered with heavy timbers and railroad iron. At the termination of the parallel, a covered way, there is a mortar battery of two mortars. These all bear on Fort Sumter. The channel is defended by a battery, designated as battery G, of two 8-inch howitzers; by battery F, of two 8-inch howitzers and two 42-pounders; by battery E, of one 8-inch columbiad; by battery D, of two 8-inch columbia
The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
guns on the top of Sumter. Fort Sumter commenced to return the fire at seven o'clock this morning, and seems to be greatly disabled. The battery on Cummings' Point does Sumter great damage. At 9 o'clock this morning a dense smoke poured out from Fort Sumter, and the Federal flag is at half-mast, signaling distress to thson's stronghold thick and fast. They can be seen in their course from the Charleston Battery. The breach made in Fort Sumter is in the side opposite to Cummings' Point, Two of its port- holes are knocked into one, and the wall from the top is crumbling. Three vessels, one of them a large sized steamer, are over the bar,s are in the offing, quietly at anchor. They have not fired a gun. The entire roofs of Anderson's barracks are in a vast sheet of flame. The shells from Cummings' Point are bursting in and over the doomed fortress in quick succession, but the Federal "flag still waves" at the mast-head. Major Anderson appears to be solely oc
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
hen took up the tale of death, and in a moment the guns from the redoubtable Gun Battery on Cummings' Point, from Captain McCready's Battery, from Capt. James Hamilton's Floating Battery, the Enfiladuse the remaining ones. The Howitzer Battery connected with the impregnable Gun Battery at Cummings' Point, is managed with consummate skill and terrible effect. Eleven o'clock.--A messenger frris' Island brings the glorious news that the shot glance from the iron-covered battery, at Cummings' Point, like marbles thrown by a child on the back of a turtle. The upper portion of the Southwes, confirms the cheerful news. Twelve o'clock.--We have just learned by an arrival from Cummings' Point, that the batteries there are doing good service--Stevens' Battery very successful. Not a , at the time, he had the office of directing. The famous iron batteries — the one at Cummings' Point — named for Mr. C. H. Stevens, the inventor, and the celebrated Floating Battery, construct
The Daily Dispatch: April 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs at Pensacola. (search)
e larger portion of the way, when a shout arose from the whole circle of spectators on the islands and the main land, announcing that the white flag of truce was waving from the ramparts. A small boat had already been seen to shoot out from Cummings' Point, in the direction of the fort, in which stood an officer with a white flag upon the point of his sword. This officer proved to be Col. Wigtall, aid to the commanding General, who, entering through a port hole, demanded the surrender. Major the sand-bags abhor, rolled over, striking him upon the back of the neck, but not with sufficient force to hurt him. The ball (a thirty-two pounder) we preserved as a memento of the occasion. The first gun fired from the Iron Battery at Cummings' Point was discharged by the venerable Edmund Ruffin. He subsequently shot all the guns and mortars used during the action. Sunday after the Victory. The Courier say: The services in all our sanctuaries yesterday exhibited the outpo
The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Changes on Morris' Island. (search)
Changes on Morris' Island. --The Charleston (S. C.) Mercury thus writes in regard to Morris' Island: As the site of the old Fort Moultrie, of the Revolution, is now covered by the waters of the ocean, so does that part of Morris' Island, where our batteries were planted against Sumter, seem destined to be washed away. The encroachments of the sea have lately been greater than at any previous period, and Cumming's Point will, if they continue, soon cease to be. Some of the works which it was not deemed necessary to level, and which we had supposed might remain for years, evidences of the industry of our troops, have melted away. The tents even of some of the troops now guarding the channel batteries were washed down, and their camp had to be removed. What the effect will be upon our harbor, should this island wash away, we cannot say; but attention should be given to it, its effects closely watched, and, if injurious, guarded against. A good military road along the beac
The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], What a U. S. Naval officer Thinks of Fort Pickens. (search)
sionists ashore muster 10,000 available fighting men, notwithstanding previous estimates. They are scattered for miles around, and have some of the best officers in America to regulate their movements. There are at least six batteries that may open fire on Fort Pickens now concealed, and of course the exact places in which they are situated no one of us can find out. The skill of three United States military and naval officers has been concentrated to make these most powerful, and Cumming's Point ravages on Sumter indicate what a hidden battery may do. Let it be distinctly understood, then, that on land at present the Secessionists number at least five times more than the Federal troops. Take all our available men from the ships, and you cannot make up one-third of our enemies' strength. There have been serious impediments, too, placed in the water within eight days, and it is now very doubtful whether, forts left out, ships could go up to the Yard. Then Montgomery and Warrin
The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
signal to Fort Moultrie. On we go; the soldiers are below with loaded muskets and the officers are ready to give the word if there is anything to do. Now it is broad daylight, and we are making directly into the guns of Fort Moultrie, whose black walls are distinctly visible. The little steamer at our right is burning a signal light aft, and is making all possible headway up the harbor. Now we discover a red Palmetto flag at our left on Morris' Island, at a little village called Cummings' Point, and apparently but little more than a mile from Fort Sumter. "Is it possible that those fellows have got a battery off here?" asks one. "No," answers another; "There is no battery there." But there is. It is now a quarter past seven, and we are about two miles from Forts Sumter and Moultrie, which are equidistant from us, and, suddenly, whizzed comes a ricochet shot from Morris' Island. It plunges into the water and skips along, but falls short of our steamer. The line
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