. The long roll : being a journal of the civil war, as set down during the years 1861-1863 . PLATE XVIII Buinsides Fleet at Anoh(jr, February (i, 18G-2. ^^i^:-^j^- Bombardment of Roanoke Island PLATE XIX THE LONG ROLL jnthusiastically by the boys, for we have all grown to likebini better than we once did. Christmas Eve, December 24th. Little did I dream last year at this time that I would befitting here now, writing up my Journal on this, above allithcrs, the most desolate part of creation. I can hardly realizethe real, so strangely does it seem interwoven with then, here I am, the


. The long roll : being a journal of the civil war, as set down during the years 1861-1863 . PLATE XVIII Buinsides Fleet at Anoh(jr, February (i, 18G-2. ^^i^:-^j^- Bombardment of Roanoke Island PLATE XIX THE LONG ROLL jnthusiastically by the boys, for we have all grown to likebini better than we once did. Christmas Eve, December 24th. Little did I dream last year at this time that I would befitting here now, writing up my Journal on this, above allithcrs, the most desolate part of creation. I can hardly realizethe real, so strangely does it seem interwoven with then, here I am, there is no mistaking that fact, nor thatit is Christmas Eve of the year of our Lord, Eighteen Hundredirnl Sixty-one. It may not be as pleasant as it is strange,for we are still subjected to the petty tyranny of Williams,who .seems to be a monomaniac on fortifications and discipline.[Jul even this is doing something, and I am far happier than Iwas at Airs. Simpsons one year ago, brooding over the blankprospect then ahead, which has revealed itself so strangelysince. But Roll calls and I must stop writing. Eve of Christmas Day. It was my intention to


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