“We now first heard from all the remote batteries, and learned that they, like ours, had not had a man killed or wounded,” Ruffin wrote. “It was more remarkable that the garrison had been almost equally exempt, there having been only a few slight wounds from flying splinters or fragments.” Ruffin observed that Sumter had withstood the barrage without significant damage. “The walls outside were thickly sprinkled with marks of cannon balls, which had not penetrated more than from 6 to 18 inches, and had nowhere made a breach.”
