Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-04-07
THE FIGHT AT RI
- PEMRERTON.
A Rebel Account.

A correspondent of the jackson tMiss.)
Appeal, writing from Fort Pemberton on
she 18th of March, gives the following &C
count Of the fight at Greenwood:
"Last Wednesday morning the Yankee
feet of gunboats and transports, to the
Number o. thirty seven, led by broac'
horned irOn.clad, which our boys call the
Chilly Coffee, started from a point In the
Tallahatchie three miles above us, (where
they had tied up the night beforel. end
cane tearing round the bend of the river IN
full gAllop. as though they were going on
down to Suyder's Mills without stopping.
We knew they were coming, and just as
the ChilIicotbs poked her nose round the
corner she ran against percussion shell
from % FOUNDER rifle that had been play
fully aud courteous|y forwarded for her
reception and welcome.
'This was followed by a plug from our
whistling Dick (alongoide the 80 pouuder).
and the electrified Yank backed up the
river, around the bend, where, exposing
nothing but her bow guns-eleven inches
she replied to us. After firing fonr
times at our battery, a shell from the 81
FOUNDER exploded in our cotton breast>
works, making the balls fly, and she drew
Cd. We struck her in the short time Of the
engagement seven times. That afternoon
another gunboat came it her place, and, ns
q consequence, it took them from dark TIL
daylight Dext morning to depair damages.
We lost that day one killed and four
wounded by fragments of she'll, and four
slightly burned by the ignition Of a small
Ouontity of powder.
"On Thursday the engagement was
upImportsnt. No injury sustained by
Ne.
ION Friday morn ing we discovered tha
they had succeeded in making battery o.
heavy pieces in the dense forest in ouI
front, and from this, two gunboats, and {
l3-ineh mortar, they opened upon us at II
O'Clock A. NJ. The fight was kept up fu
rioHsly throughout the day, closing at sun
set. One of the guns on q gun boat.
think the st. Lpuis-was a 200 FOUNDER
the others on the boats ii inches, the NOR
Tar IL inch, and the land battery "a pound
TifieF. /; is fair 10 say that a prrjrctil
was in the air all the time. They appear
ed 20 be of every conceivable shape. from
spherical to thsSlamP post Style of architeC
ture, and some of them, verify believe
"uINu WIZ ASA-h oh'tNb
ed in our faces as they went whining AM
bowling spitefully but barmlessly by. Gu
shot, shell, grape and canister fell 50 thc
and fast in the timber. that we succeedt
IN spelling one Of the guns in their Ian
battery but they are an industrious set G
skunks, and in two hours they had substi
tuted is for q set Of smaller caliber.
AT abou, O'Clock P, NJ, one Of til
guDboats withdrew bodily damaged. Tn
other stood it out, however, though struc
several times, until just as the sun was sc
ting, when our correspondent noted the d
recsion of the three shots from Whistlin
Dick. They were to the point, and tn
broad horn went round the corner
craWfish, and disappeared. 1t IS proper
say that they stand bow on, and only tW
can come at time. They dare not tur
round when they want to Withdrawals TIT
would expose their tenderest parts. W
may know that backing clumsy gunbOi
up stream is no easy business. Since the
the engagement have been Of little or I
Importance, so far as We can see"