.... The enemy were throwing shells into our lines while I was on shore, which were quickly responded to by our men. About twelve o'clock, I took a small boat, to visit the gunboat fleet in company with Lieut Col. Daniel Elliott , Add de Camp. of Maine, and Dr. L. Munson. The far famed Monitor lay in the middle of the river, and as the Lieutenant commanding was an old pupil of Col Elliott, at the Colonel's suggestion, we ...