. Field, fort and fleet; being a series of brilliant and authentic sketches of the most notable battles of the late civil war . e of the prisoners would give his rank, and as all were dressedalike the Federal officer selected three of the best looking, whom hethought must be ofiicers, and took them away in his boat, afterparoling the others. These three turned out to be privates. At 232 THE FEDERAL BLOCKADEES OF THE WAB. Savannah I met one of the ten men captured there, and he said thatafter the boat had departed the paroled men sat down among thesmoking ruins and liad a good hiugh over the tr
. Field, fort and fleet; being a series of brilliant and authentic sketches of the most notable battles of the late civil war . e of the prisoners would give his rank, and as all were dressedalike the Federal officer selected three of the best looking, whom hethought must be ofiicers, and took them away in his boat, afterparoling the others. These three turned out to be privates. At 232 THE FEDERAL BLOCKADEES OF THE WAB. Savannah I met one of the ten men captured there, and he said thatafter the boat had departed the paroled men sat down among thesmoking ruins and liad a good hiugh over the trick tliey had infantry stationed on the neck were in fault for the pretending to maintain a patrol, they were all in campand asleep when the schooner was attacked. It may be a bitter truth for certain people to swallow, but it isnevertheless a solemn fact, that this same schooner ran at least threecargoes direct from New York and Philadelphia into blockadedports, each time being furnished a cargo by men who were makingthemselves hoarse by hurrahing for the glorious Union and C^e ^mbama itn^ tlje gcitteras.
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