THE WAR-EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
...The rebels retired to a village twenty-five miles in the interior, where it is supposed they intend to make a stand. Next day three gunboats, under Capt. Ammon, visited Beaufort, where they found but a single white man, and he was drunk.
The white population had fled to Charleston by small steamers. There was a general stampede of negroes to Gen. [Thomas] Sherman's camp who had refused to go with their masters, and they say that many were shot for their refusal. The fleet stood within between eight hundred and one thousand feet of the forts, and used five second fuses, pouring shell into the forts at the rate of two thousand an hour. Not a single shell sent by the rebels burst in a ship....
[Editor's Note: The majority of this article has been omitted from our transcription except for the portions directly mentioning the term "slave stampedes" or some variant.]
Boston (MA) Recorder, November 21, 1861, p. 3.