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The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
she did at a quarter to eleven. We let loose upon her and were soon again hotly engaged. The ships did not come in then until we had been fighting some two or three hours, when the Niagara moved slowly up and began firing again on Fort McRae. Capt. Kerr then turned his gun upon her, as did Captain Smith. Capt. Kerr struck her on the side near the bows, making her careen to one side as if she were sinking, and set off in a hurry to get out of reach. While she was leaving, Capt. Smith gave her Capt. Kerr struck her on the side near the bows, making her careen to one side as if she were sinking, and set off in a hurry to get out of reach. While she was leaving, Capt. Smith gave her a shot in the stern which injured her screw. All the other ships immediately crowded around her, and from that fact, among others, we suppose she must have been badly injured. "On the morning of the 24th, while at our battery, Gen. Bragg rode up and said: Gentlemen, I have come to thank you for your gallant conduct in the engagement. You have had the post of danger, consequently the post of honor. You have shown the enemy that our farmers and mechanics can beat them firing, notwithstandi