Two Passaic class monitors and the casemated ironclad Keokuk, stripped for action and ready to go into action against Fort Sumter and the rest of the defenses at Charleston in September 1863. The Monitors and the Keokuk were badly handled by the forts in this action. The New Ironsides was also involved but her draft prevented her from getting close enough to the forts to be effective.

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