Posted on 12/29/2023 6:46:36 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
FORTRESS MONROE, Monday, Dec. 28.
The Richmond Examiner of to-day contains the following dispatches:
CHARLESTON, Friday, Dec. 25.
The enemy commenced shelling the city last night, keeping up a steady fire, which is still going on at 9 o'clock this morning.
A fire broke out at 2 o'clock, destroying ten or twelve buildings and causing a few casualties.
There is heavy firing in the direction of Stono, which is believed to be between our batteries and the enemy's gunboats.
The shelling of the city continued to-day. One white man was mortally, and one white woman slightly wounded, and three firemen were badly wounded by the falling walls of the burning buildings, and eight or ten were slightly wounded.
All is quiet at Sumter.
CHARLESTON, Saturday, Dec. 26.
From 12 o'clock Thursday night to 4 o'clock Friday afternoon 130 shells were thrown at the city. The enemy fired from five guns, three at Gregg, one at Cummings Point, and from a mortar battery.
The engagement on Johnson's Island between our light batteries and the enemy's gunboats resulted in a drawn fight. There were few casualties.
CHARLESTON, Sunday, Dec. 21.
The enemy fired four shells at the city last night. There has been no firing from Morris Island to-day. Our batteries kept up a vigorous fire on the enemy's working parties, who are engaged in erecting another battery at the extreme end of Cumming's Point.
Our loss at Stono was one killed and five wounded.
DALTON, Ga., Sunday, Dec. 27.
Gen. JOSEPH E. JOHNSON assumes command of the Army of the Tennessee to-day.
Scouts report 2,000 Yankees at Cumberland Shed, two miles north of Cleveland, and a similar force south of that place.
ORANGE, C.H., Thurday, Dec. 24.
The Yankees destroyed a part of the town of Luray, Page County, by fire.
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Gen. Butler’s Department: Exchange of Five Hundred Prisoners – 2
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Arrest of Two of the Chesapeake Pirates – 2
A Speech by Secretary Stanton – 2
The Freedmen of South Carolina – 2-4
News from Washington: Special Dispatches to the N.Y. Times – 4-5
The Problem of Military Reorganization – 5
Editorial: A More than “Effective” Blockade – 5-6
Progress in Arkansas – 6
Editorial: Sale of Confiscated Lands – 6
Speed in Iron-Clads – 6
The Fortune of Longstreet’s Column – 6
Brooklyn News – 6
The good old days when life was hard yet simple.
To bad the South lost.
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