Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-11-20
lF.om tito Ch,rl.s,en Cour,.r. ,

BOMBARDMENT OF FORT SUMTER
ONE HUNDRED ANB TwExTY-S1STn DAY OF TIE
SIEGE.
The heavy mortar Smelling kept up during
Sunday night on Gregg an1 Cummings Point
from our mortar batteries on Sullivan's Island
appears TO have alarmed and rendered the en-
envy on Morris Island somewhat Desperate
The Monitors, foar in number, which have
been OF late comparatively quiet, moved up
between Elk and seven o'clock, Monday morn
ing, and opened fire On Sullivan's Island bat
icries and Fort Moultrie. One Monitor took
q position between Sumter and Sullivan 3
Island. The Other three were drawn I'D close
together about six hundred yards from Sumter
in line If battle. The leading Monitor got
agrou2d.
Tie cnemy's fire was returned BIZ a heavy
cannonGding from Fort Mnultr,e and bat!eric.
Marion, Bee and Rulledgc, on Sullivan )
Island, and Fort Johnson ard battery Sim.
i:;ns. on James Island.
AbouI half past eleven tho monitor, which
was aground, got atioat, aud moved Of, NOT,
however, without being severely injured. OBJ
scrva'io>s made with good glasses showed
that Eer smokaStack had hrnn perforated in
two places. and hAr turret in three, two of
Which, were above her port holes, and one sh It
in her pilot box. Another monitor had h ar
smol:eStack perforated, and the turret struck
in two different places. By twelve o'clock
they had all gone back, two Of them at lcas:
III 9 disabled condition.
TIE others retcrned il the afternoon, aud
Sired few shots mt Sumter. after which one
left f.r her, anchorage. while the other re-
maiueA OF Cummings Point, on usual picket
duty.
The heavynnd usual firing so carly in the
morning br5uSh. out large numbers of cur
people, some under the impression that the
enemy mad commenced general attack: M
report Of any casualties reached u; up 10 .
late hour Monday night.
\ flag IF truce from the crcmy came to-
ward Sulliran's Island about three o'clock
Monday afternoon, ard was met by one CT two
OF our boats. Tie cause of it VIC did not
learn. but it is reported the cnemy's commu-
r.ication was refused in accordance with orders
from headquarters To receive no more flags of
truce.
The Smelling OF Fort Moultric on Friday
and Saturday was very heavy from battery
Gregg, and for few hours on Saturday was
terrific. Bat few shells fell in the fort. Tic
monitors, though occupying their usual posi-
ton, had been inactive executing whenever
Grcl upon from the fort, they Immediately re-
turned the fire, but always took good care to
move further eff. The casualties wcro one
man kllcd-Pri7ate Compton, of Capt. With
crapoon's company. Major James McCau'ey,
in preparing TO 70 from the fort to another
battery had his carriage struck and one of his
horGes killed. On Saturday neither the moni.
tors nor the Morris Is!acd batteries opened on
the fcr!
The mortar shcllirg of Fort Sumter con.
tinues severe, and without intermission, from
Cummings Point batteries During Saturday
night the number of riflel shots fired was
nincty-eisht, Of which th;rty-niae missed,
and two hundred ard n,ueiecn mortar shells,
cf Which ninety missed. The following are
the casualties which occurred during Saturday
night: Privatcs J. 4. Wilson, Company X,
o1ta Georgia, slightly wounded; n. =. Ben
ton. Company c, 9th Georgia, scalp, slight
William Ment, Company K, 9th Georgia,
back slight
On Sunday sixteen riAed shots were fired,
of which SIX missed, and three hundred and
twenty mortar shells, Of which fifteen missed.
First Sergeant j. c. Grimball, company D.
First South Curolina artillery, was wounded
severely in the head, abdomen and knee by q
slieil. No report was received from the fort
of ihc action of Sunday night and Monday.
Over seven hundred and ilty-four shots were
fired at Sumter during that time. as reported
from obseryati ms made in the city.
LArER.-A report from the fort received at.
half past ten o'clock last night, states that
Edward Lake, q member of the Charleston
Light Infantry company, Capt. 7. Y. Simons.
II this city, was killed by a fragment Ct shell
in the evening The fort itself had sustained
20 further injury.