The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-04-16
s: B. MILLs See.
Further Particulars Of the Char
lesion Battle.


fight, says a1. 81 1a5Ell Ja 81
The squadron arrived off Charleston on
the morning of the 9Th, and spent the day
in examining the bars and channels, the.
wind beingtoo high to cross that evening.
the Admiral disclosed his plan Of attack,
which was to sail directly up anil attack the
northwest face of Fort Sumter at 900 or 800
wards. About s o'clock, a. 10. tina signal
for the movement was given, and the YES.
sells started slowly. In consequence Of the
fog, however, they were obliged to postpone
the attack till the next day. ,s. a- r...
During the afternoon, one Of Gen Ferrys
brigades worked its way up Folly Island
and established communication with the
feet, but no portion Of the landforees got in
TO attack at nh. ~ R aE.
On the Nh, at AS p m, the fee got IN
der way. and passed the Morris Island bat
tories without being fred upon, pushing
right on toward Sumter The New Iron,
sides worked badly, and in consequence Of
tho current, Was oeIigedto snchcr two CT
three times i~- ss s 20 ~
Fort Moultrie opened first upon the We
hawken, which was within 800 yards Of
City Point battery and the batteries Of Fort
Sumter immediately opened and the action
became general and terrific. The monitors
still pushed north. east replying vigorously,
and passed northeast of Fort Sumter, where
they discovered three lines of obstruction
holding torpedoes, &C.. one Of which ex-
pleded, but did no great damage Finding
it imnossibls to get across the distractions
they turned about and steamed down the
harbor. The Patapsco's 200 FOUNDER had
become disabled, and the turret of the Pass
aic so bent that the vessel was practically
out Of use The other boats also passed up
to the northeast face of Sumter till they AL
SO were stopped by the distractions, and
turned back after being under fire three
quarters Of an hour All the monitors were
ordered back and at 8 o'clock the entire
feet were out Of range and the action clos
ed. Amirsi Dupont intended a renewal of
the action, but asccrtaining that the Keo-
kuk and Passaic were entirely disabled and
three others partially, he concluded to de-
sist, in which he was sustained by all OF the
commanders
The Monitors were hit from so 60 60
times after except the Keokuk, which rcceiv
ed about 80 shots, and was penetrated at
water mark no less than 10 times. She
was kept till the next morning, when she
sunk on the Bar, her colors flying. All on
board were saved. The Ironsides was hit
| abont 60 times but not damaged
There are / largo holes in the side of
Fort Samter, apparently running through
the walls. The extent of the firing only
amounted to $50 rounds. When our cor
respondent left Of the monitors had sailed
for Port Royal, and others were to follow
| Our entire casualties amount to 49, Of
whom but two or three were killed
The Times special gives the following
list Of casualties on the Nahant:
Com Downes, slight confusion in neck
and shoulders, dong well; Quartermaster
Cobb, compound fracture from shell, since
dead; three Seamen slightly wounded.
On the Keokuk Com. A. c. Rhinds,
confusion in the leg; A. McIrlish. acting
Ensign, dangerously wounded; r. Nichol.
son, Quartermsster. slightly three Seamen
severely and seven Others slightly.
The New York Hersld's account gays
tia. rumor is in circulation both at Port
Royal and at Charleston Bar, that our
troops were rapidly gaining the rear Of the
city Of Charleston.
| The Times correspondent says Of the
Charleston fight. The iron ships we're eE-
posed to concentric ERE from five different
points This is unparalleled in the history
of warfare.
| The feet found it impossible to pass up
4 beyond Fort Sumter, and assume an ap.
| pointed place, owing to distractions, which
extends across the entire channel from Sum
ter to Moultrie while above these near the
middle ground were three other rows of
| piles, and above these three rebel iron clads
The fee was thus compelled to sustain the
terrific fire, and molly did it SO for thirty
| minutes. During that time not less than
$500 shots were fired by che enemy, 100
being counted in single minute.
Baltimore. April 12-The gunboat Flam-
beau arrived at Old Point on Saturday af.
terpoon, bringing the officers Of tie Iron
clad Keokuk. The following is made up
from an interesting account furnished the
Baltimore american by an eye witness who
was In the fight: The Wehavken was
assigned an important duty, which was
faithfully performed in the midst Of the
fight, to examine, and if possible, to fI.d
the distractions which the rebels had ex.
tended across the harbor from Sumter to
Moulsrie. She pushed straight up towards
the Instructions. They were found to con.
sist OF net. W ork, chains and cables streton-
cd across the harbor, over which il was i'm.
possible for the Wehawken to run without
fouling her propeller. which she fonnd il
i'm possible 60 force through this net work,