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The Daily Dispatch: April 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], Fight at Williamsburg. (search)
umter, during the engagement, was not over eight hundred yards. The steamer Passable was the leader, and not the Keokuk as at first reported. The latter is said to have been the last to come into line and the last going out. Seven of the Monitors and the Ironsides were reported at headquarters as still inside the bar Wednesday morning. A later report in the afternoon stated, that these vessels had gone outside, and eight turreted Monitors were seen steaming South, apparently bound to Port Royal. It was thought they remained inside during the night and following morning to render assistance to the Keokuk, but finding all their efforts to save her useless they abandoned her and left as above stated. In the evening, however, the seven turreted monsters re-appeared, and it is believed they had merely gone round to Stono to avoid the heavy blow that prevailed at the bar during the afternoon. The nondescript, or "Yankee Davis," for clearing the channel, was washed ashore on Morri