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The Daily Dispatch: July 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Impossibility of Johnston saving Vicksburg (search)
was killed on the same day by the Yankee sharpshooters. On Thursday the gunboats continued their bombardment of Battery Wagner during the whole day, and about six o'clock in the evening a monitor was towed into position and opened fire. On James's Island a reconnaissance in force was made by the Confederates to ascertain the force of the Federal on the lower end of the island, which was believed to consist of several regiments of negroes. The Charleston Courier gives an account of this attace missiles strike near Fort Wagner; but more frequently a feathery cloud of unimprisoned smoke, lingering for a moment in mid air, then drifting slowly upward, tells that the shell has burst above. The gunboats have also persistently shelled James's Island; ambulances, horses, wagons — anything that betrays human or animal life — comes under the iron ban, and woe to the nervous system that tempus the shock. I forgot to mention that when Colquitt's troops charged on the enemy it was to the