THE WAR IN SOUTH CAROLINA: The Attack Upon the Gunboat Marblehead; THE REBELS DRIVEN FROM THEIR BATTERY (1/5/1864)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 1/5/1864

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WASHINGTON, Monday, Jan. 4.

The Navy Department has received official information in relation to the attack upon the gunboat Marblehead, in Stono Inlet on Christmas morning, by which Robert Brown, Lorenzo D. Shaw and Joseph Philips were killed, and Charles Morn, Alexander Henderson, John Hackett and Charles Semmes were wounded.

Commander BALCH, of the Pawnee, says, that at 6:20 on the morning of the 25th of December, the enemy opened on the Marblehead, which was replied to vigorously.

At 6:25 the Pawnee opened fire on the enemy's batteries from her 100-pound rifle-gun.

At 7 the C.P. Williams, on hearing the firing slipped her cable and came down Folly River under sail, and opened fire handsomely. The rapid fire from the three vessels soon caused the enemy to retreat.

At 7 1/2 the enemy had retreated in disorder, leaving two of his guns in the battery.

The Pawnee then proceeded off Legaresville.

Soon after this Gen. GORDON, commanding the troops on the south end of Folly Island, came up and said if the Pawnee would cover the advance, he would send an infantry force to bring off the guns which the enemy had left. The force was accordingly sent.

Everything denoted that the enemy had made a precipitate retreat.

The Marblehead was struck twenty times, and much injured. Her officers and men stood to their guns until the enemy had retreated. Her foremast is cut, and she has twelve shots in her hull, and one between wind and water. Eighteen shots struck her in the upper works and aloft. One thirty-bounder shell lodged in the steerage, but did not explode, which shows that the enemy had something more than field-pieces.

The enemy's guns were brought away, by an expedition from the three vessels.

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The Texas Blockade: Capture of a Mexican Schooner – 2
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Gen. Butler’s Department: Military Commission at Norfolk – 2
Army of the Potomac: New-Year’s Day in the Army – 2
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The Fifteenth Army Corps: An Order by Maj.-Gen. Sherman – 3
The Weather: The Cold Weather at the West – 3
News from Washington: Our Special Washington Dispatches – 3
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