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From Our Special Correspondent
Folly Island, S.C. Nov. 12, 1863/
Nothing of interest beyond the mere fact of the continuance of the bombardment of Fort Sumter, or rather what is left of it, has transpired since last advices. Our firing for the past week has been less heavy and continuous than before, with occasional mortar practice. The gunboat Commodore McDonough, stationed in Light-House Inlet, occasionally throws a few shells at James Island and Secessionville. On Sunday last the enemy opened from their batteries in that neighborhood upon the steam ferry-boat Philadelphia, engaged in conveying some troops from Pawnee Landing, their shot failing to reach the steamer.
At Fort Sumter the sharpshooters have been again busy firing into the embrasures of Gregg, where our guns succeeded in dismounting a rifled cannon of the Rebels, in a battery to the left of Simkins on James Island.
Citation: New York Daily Tribune. 12 November 1863. Gift of Steven and Susan Raab.