The Loss of the Monitor Weehawken-- Part 1: Inaccountably

From the Civil War and Northwest Wisconsin blog.

From the December 26, 1863 Prescott Journal.  Prescott is a city in northwest Wisconsin.  From the New York Herald.

APPALLING DISASTER
LOSS OF THE MONITOR WEEHAWKEN

United States Transport Fulton, off Charleston, December 8, 1863.

At 2 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, while a furious wind prevailed from the northwest, the ironclad Weehawken, lying at the entrance of Charleston harbor, went down at her anchorage -- went suddenly, swiftly, and unaccountably to the bottom -- and carried with her, to a horrible death beneath the waves, four of her engineers and twenty-six of her crew.

--Old B-Runner