The Daily Dispatch: April 11, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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From Charleston.
Interesting Particulars of the recent fight.

--All quiet; no prospect of a fight to-day. A Confederate officer from Morris Island boarded the wreck of the Kockuk last night and found her turret had been pierced through by a ball.

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[second Dispatch]

--Six Monitors and the Ironsides still be within the bar, about two and a half miles from Sumter. The enemy is waiting for a new machine to remove torpedoes. Everything is in readiness for the attack.

Senor Moneads, the Spanish Consul, who recently left here in a Spanish war steamer, returned to day, via Richmond, having left Washington on Thursday last, on hearing the attack here was imminent. Neither the French nor English Consuls are here.

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[third Dispatch]

--Account from Fort Sumter reflect the highest credit on the garrison for coolness and bravery in the recent fight.--When the Monitors were discovered approaching, the men were at dinner. At the sound of the long roll they sprang to their guns with shooting; the battle- flag was run up to the air of "Dixle," played by the band on the parapet, and a salute of thirteen guns fired.

Col. Alfred Ellett was the commanding officer of the fort. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Yates commanded the barbette batteries, and Major Ormsby Blanding the case-mated batteries. The enemy fired eighty shots at the fort of which thirty-four struck. The garrison are eager for the next chance at the Monitors.

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[official Dispatch]

--To Gen. S. Cooper: General W. S. Walker destroyed an armed steamer in the Coosaw river at daylight this morning. No casualties on our side. All quiet Six Monitors and the Ironsides are still within the bar.