. The long roll : being a journal of the civil war, as set down during the years 1861-1863 . On the way back, I noticed the Eagle with her twowhite pilot-houses looking for all the world like a Southernsummer home through the trees, and I am certain that a greatmany who saw her thought she was the abode of some Southernplanter. We returned to the Virginia yesterday afternoonand are back in camp, having succeeded in our object beyondour expectations. The elements did not favor us with anythingbut frowns of a dismal sort, for as we embarked in a rain, sodid we disembark, with the additional plea
. The long roll : being a journal of the civil war, as set down during the years 1861-1863 . On the way back, I noticed the Eagle with her twowhite pilot-houses looking for all the world like a Southernsummer home through the trees, and I am certain that a greatmany who saw her thought she was the abode of some Southernplanter. We returned to the Virginia yesterday afternoonand are back in camp, having succeeded in our object beyondour expectations. The elements did not favor us with anythingbut frowns of a dismal sort, for as we embarked in a rain, sodid we disembark, with the additional pleasure of being nearlyswamped by the rough sea, in Colonel Hawkins launch. Iam sorry that I was not able to make a couple of sketches up114 THE LONG ROLL there, for I saw two or three points of interest. Exceptingthe city itself, the principal one was the locality of the littlenaval battle where Lynchs fleet was destroyed, for there,not far from the city, lay the Fanny and the Curlew,their iron skeletons, red with rust, just visible above the watersedge. That is the last of the poor 115 CHAPTER X The Battle of Camden April 14th. YESTERDAY was Sunday as surely as to-day is Monday,and I was on guard. General Burnside arrived suddenlywith a fleet of gunboats from New-Berne, early in the brought a mail for us from Hatteras. In the guard-house,as we prepared to give him the usual review and salute, specu-lation was rife as to the meaning of his sudden appearance,but we did not come to anything more definite than that itmeant something. Burnside usually means something. Aboutfour oclock, the Regiment marched out to the drill groundsand was reviewed by the old, slouchy-looking General. Wewere all in our new Sunday-go-to-meetings and did our K saluted with the usual thirteen rounds, and inreturn he complimented us very warmly. After the review, the General stationed himself in front ofthe Colonels quarters for the Dress Parade, and I had a goodview of him
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