Posted on 12/13/2021 4:56:35 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
THE RECENT OPERATIONS NEAR PORT ROYAL.
Capt. DUPONT, in his communication to the Navy Department, dated 4th of December, says the apprehension of losing possession of the Bay of St. Helena, so exceedingly valuable, for a harbor, for its proximity to Charleston, and for the command it secures of large rivers, supplying interior communication with South Carolina, induced him to dispatch a second expedition there under Commander DRAYTON, with orders to hold the island until Gen. SHERMAN is prepared to assume military occupation of it, when he will transfer the fort to his troops. The reconnoissance of Commander ROGERS, of Warsaw Inlet, was in order to ascertain the position and force of the enemy's battery there, information which the Commanding General expressed his desire to obtain before landing the troops on Tybee Island. In the necessary occupation of St. Helena Sound and Tybee Roads, and in the examination of Warsaw Inlet, a large number of the vessels of the squadron is engaged, which will be released and employed on blockading duty as soon as Otter and Tybee islands are held by the army. Warsaw Inlet and Sound constitute a second entrance into Savannah River, and, as twenty-one feet can be carried over the bar at high water, this passage is but little inferior to Tybee entrance. It appears from a private letter that our guns are but ten miles from Savannah, the steeples of which are plainly visible from the decks of our ships as they ride at anchor. It seems to be understood that in addition to our occupation of Beaufort, Gen. VIELE was at once to be sent with a considerable force to occupy the most important points in the new approaches to Savannah, and that another force will go about the same time on a
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