At Sackville Street, St. Stephen's Street, and Four Courts. These movements led to much bloodshed. Sniping became general throughout the city. The rebels were supplied with ample ammunition, and used it so freely that it was dangerous to walk even a few steps in the open or to sit at a window.

By Wednesday evening, the two parties of combatants and the areas they occupied were more or less accurately defined. The Sinn Feiners would not allow anyone to pass without the written authority of their chief, and the military, on their side, proclaimed martial law and restricted the movements of civilians to the streets in which they resided, while all were forbidden to go out of their homes after dark or before dawn.

Soldiers on duty at the ends of the streets were compelled to remain under shelter from rebel bullets, which came from every quarter. During the course of the day, a gunboat came up the River Lifley, fired several shells into Lifley Hall, which was occupied by a number of rebel officers, and soon demolished it. The cordons of troops, manually drew tighter around the rebel forts, and the firing became more furious.

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