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The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], Matters at Charleston. (search)
number, which have been of late comparatively quiet, moved up between six and seven o'clock Monday morning, and opened fire on Sullivan's Island batteries and Fort Moultrie. One monitor took a position between Sumter and Sullivan's Island. The other three were drawn up close together about six hundred yards from Sumter, in line of battle. The leading monitor got aground. The enemy's fire was returned by a heavy cannonading from Fort Moultrie and Batteries Marion. Bee, and Rutledge, on Sullivan's Island, and Fort Johnson and Battery Simkins, on James's Island. About half-past 11 the Monitor which was aground got afloat and moved off, not, however, w, but it is reported the enemy's communication was refused, in accordance with orders from headquarters to receive no more flags of truce. The shelling of Fort Moultrie on Friday and Saturday was very heavy from battery Gregg, and for a few hours on Saturday was terrific. But few shells fell in the fort. The monitors, though