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A shell into the enemy’s works
One of Fort Moultrie’s shells fell into the Federal works on Morris Island and caused a great explosion, thought to be ammunition chests. Major Jenkins telegraphed from John’s Island that the enemy had bridged the creek and established a line of communication across the marsh from Dixon’s Island to Folly River. Confederate telegraph operators near Lowndes’ Mill on the Combahee were captured the same day.
Journal of Operations in Charleston Harbor, OR I, 28, Pt. 1