May 31.
Gunboats, to this time, running up the Stono every morning as before, shelling every one who came in sight, whether on foot, on horse, or in vehicle. Some peaceful citizens crossing “Newtown cut” bridge in a buggy, during this period, were very much startled by a shell, and took to flight on foot across the fields. To-day a few shells thrown from the Stono towards Secessionville, fell near the camp of Twenty-fourth regiment South Carolina Volunteers, and to Brigadier-General Gist, Captain James Gist and Captain Joseph Glover, of his staff, who were riding out.
