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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1863., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Morris Island (South Carolina, United States) or search for Morris Island (South Carolina, United States) in all documents.
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The attack on Charleston.Repulse of the enemy on Morris Island.
The Charleston papers, of Monday, bring us a full account of the fighting on Morris Island Saturday, and the subsequent bombardmenMorris Island Saturday, and the subsequent bombardment of Sunday.
We make up the following account from them:
The enemy evidently did not, at first, feel secure in his newly-gained position.
During Thursday night, (according to the statements ofhe enemy fired rapidly, but wildly, eliciting only an occasional response from the forts on Morris's Island and Fort Sumter.
Our casualties through the day were two killed and three wounded. One sho it, it is vain now to it quire.
The Yankees having got possession of the southern half of Morris's Island, there is but one way to save the city of Charleston, and that is, the speedy and unflinching use of the bayonet.
If the fight on Morris's Island is to be now a fight by engineering contrivances and cannon merely, the advantage is now with the enemy.
With their iron-clads on the water, a