...he southward to support the Chicora, if necessary, but the enemy kept on his course to the southward. I then made signal to Commander Tucker to come to an anchor, and led the way to the entrance of Beach channel , where we anchored at forty-five minutes past eight A. M., and had to remain seven hours for the tide, as the vessels cannot cross the bar excepting at high-water. . . . . . The sea was perfectly...