...teen guns were fired, to salute the ensigns that floated high in the air, as if to say, We are ready! Admiral Dupont's ships came up in the following order: four monitors—the Weehawken, the Passaic , the Montauk, the Pa-tapsco; then the New Ironsides, as flag-ship; then the Catskill, the Nantucket, the Nahant, and, bringing up the rear, the doubleturreted monitor Keokuk. They were commanded by...