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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 201 (search)
he Florida camp. eleven O'clock A. M.--The Nelms has arrived at her wharf, and Capt. Keys reports the facts as above stated, except that he is not certain whether it was the sand-batteries or Fort Pickens opened the ball. Whether Billy or Brown, they were in dead earnest. The steamer Time still occupies her position, apparently unhurt. Had the effort been made, it is thought by those on the Nelms she might have got out and come to the city. Of this we will probably learn more when Capt. Wingate comes up. The fleet, consisting of the Colorado and Niagara, it is thought, and a gunboat, have moved down from Wilson's camp to the mouth of the bar, and are, as well as we can discern, delivering broadsides at Fort McRae. Up to this hour, we had no messenger from the yard, save a little newsboy, who, according to his own story, cut stick at the first gun. twelve O'clock.--Fort Pickens and the island batteries are answering our guns with ferocity. Our forts and batteries replied