Posted on 04/12/2023 6:16:05 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Saturday, April 11.
The Richmond Whig of Friday is received. It gives the following further particulars of the attack on Charleston:
CHARLESTON, Wednesday, April 8 -- 8 P.M.
All is quiet, thus far, to-day.
The people and troops are in high spirits at the result of yesterday's fight.
The Keokuk is certainly sunk.
The fighting between the iron-clads and our forts was chiefly at a distance of nine hundred yards.
The Monitors cannot pass Fort Sumter without coming within five hundred yards of our batteries.
The impression is very general that the enemy will renew the attack after repairing damages.
Seven Monitors and the Ironsides are still off the harbor.
CHARLESTON, Wednesday, April 8 -- 10 o'clock P.M.
The latest official intelligence from the bar states that only two of the iron-clads have gone South, leaving seven remaining, besides the Keokuk, which lies sunk about one thousand yards from Morris Island.
The Yankee machine called the "Devil," designed for the removal of torpedoes, has floated ashore and fallen into our hands.
All is quiet now.
The enemy is constantly signaling, but no renewal of the attack is anticipated before to-morrow.
The Yankees have been busy all day repairing damages.
CHARLESTON, Thursday, April 9. -- 10 o'clock A.M.
All is quiet this morning.
The Monitors are still in sight.
Yesterday evening many pieces of the Keokuk's furniture, with spy-glass, &c., washed ashore on Morris Island beach.
Many of the articles were covered with clotted blood.
The impression prevails at our batteries that the slaughter on board the Keokuk was terrible.
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