...er the protection of the guns at the fort, followed by the Merrimac until the shells from the Rip Raps passed over us. We, thereupon, returned to our anchorage near Sewell's Point, and I proceeded to Norfolk for the purposes of the conference called for this day. Let us see what the Federal account has to say of the affair. Commodore Goldsborough, United States Navy, then in command of the station ...