Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast, Appendix., page 250

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II.—ironclad attack on Fortifications of Charleston Harbor, April 7, 1863.¹

Name of vessel.	Kind and calibre of armament.	Projectiles fired.		Nearest approach to Sumter or Moultrie.	Times hit.	Remarks.
		Shot.	Shell.
New Ironsides	2 150-pdr. rifles	1		1,000 yards.	Not stated.	Confederates say the New Ironsides was hit 65 times.
	14 Xi-inch	7
Montauk	1 XV-inch	10		700 yards.	14
	1 Xi-inch	16	1
Passaic	1 XV-inch		9	880 yards, or less.	35	One gun temporarily disabled.
	1 Xi-inch	2	2
Weehawken	1 XV-inch		11	Not given.	53	One gun temporarily disabled.
	1 Xi-inch		15
Patapsco	1 XV-inch		5	600 yards.	47	Rifle temporarily disabled.
	1 150-pdr. rifle		5
Catskill	1 XV-inch		10	600 yards.	20
	1 Xi-inch		12
Nantucket	1 XV-inch		3	750 yards.	51	One gun temporarily disabled.
	1 Xi-inch		12
Nahant	1 XV inch	3	4	500 yards.	36	Turret disabled for one day; not in good order for one month.
	1 Xi-inch	4	4
Keokuk	2 Xi-inch		3	550 yards.	90	Totally disabled; sunk next day off Morris Island.

Vessels, 9; guns in action, 23; fires, 139; range, from 500 to 2,100 yards: fuses for shells cut for flights of from 8% to 15 seconds; charges: XV-inch, 35 pounds; Xi-inch, 15 to 20 pounds; rifles, 46 pounds. Moultrie received 12 shots, Wagner 2, Sumter the remainder, which was struck 55 times.

note.—Colonel Rhett. commanding Fort Sumter, reports that no monitor approached nearer than 1,000 yards; the Keokuk to within 900 yards; Ironsides, 1,700 yards. Beauregard reports that the fleet did not come nearer than 1,100 yards to outer batteries, save the Keokuk, which drifted to within 900 yards of Sumter. Engineer Echols reports nearest approach of monitors, 900 yards ; of Ironsides to Moultrie, 1,700 yards, and to Sumter, 2,000 yards.

1 Table compiled from official reports.

Atlanta, Ga. 1899.

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Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

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Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

II.—ironclad attack on Fortifications of Charleston Harbor, April 7, 1863.¹