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The Daily Dispatch: April 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], Fight at Williamsburg. (search)
The fight at Charleston.additional particulars. The Charleston Courier (to which paper should have been credited the account published on Saturday) had some further particulars of the naval fight there. The sinking of the Keokuk has already been published by telegraph. The Courier says: The Keokuk was one of the most powerful of her class, and her loss will be a staggering blow to the enemy. She was built last spring and summer, in accordance with plans furnished by Mr. Whitney, an iron merchant of New York, and was said to be impervious to the largest shot or shell capable of being thrown from the most formidable fortification. Her armament consisted of two fifteen inch Dahlgren--one in each turret. Thus ends one of the boasted invulnerable fleet, which, it has long been trumpeted forth, could not be sunk, but would demolish and wipe out everything that opposed their progress. The result, so far, has elated our people, and given the highest satisfaction to our milita