. History of the Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers: its camps, marches and battles . we subsistedthus before a boat arrived from Washington with provi-sions, when we again embarked, glad enough to leave theinhospitable shores of Point Starvation, as it had beenwell named, We arrived at Fortress Monroe, where we were orderedto proceed to Yorktown, Avhich place General McClellanhad just commenced to besiege. While we were coalingup at the wharf, the rebel iron - clad monster, the Merri-mack, steamed down out of the Elizabeth river in the di-rection of the Fortress, accompanied by two cons
. History of the Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers: its camps, marches and battles . we subsistedthus before a boat arrived from Washington with provi-sions, when we again embarked, glad enough to leave theinhospitable shores of Point Starvation, as it had beenwell named, We arrived at Fortress Monroe, where we were orderedto proceed to Yorktown, Avhich place General McClellanhad just commenced to besiege. While we were coalingup at the wharf, the rebel iron - clad monster, the Merri-mack, steamed down out of the Elizabeth river in the di-rection of the Fortress, accompanied by two consorts, theYorktown and the Jamestown. All was excitement inHampton Roads, and it was but a short time before theywere entirely clear of vessels, with the exception of the 40 SECOND N. II. REGIMENT. Monitor and our little fleet of war steamers, whichpatiently awaited the threatened attack. But after takinga good survey of our preparations the imgainly monstercrept back to its den, not caring to try its hand again withthe ugly little cheese-box on a raft. CHAPTER VI. THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN. ATE on the afternoon of the 5th of Aprilthe crazy old South America woundher way up Cheesemans Creek, throughthe fleet of transports which crowded itssluggish waters, and landed us uponthe soil of the Peninsula. Everythingabout indicated the most stupendous pre-parations for prosecuting the siege of therebel stronghold. The shores of thecreek were lined with vessels dischargingtheir cargoes of war materials. Heavysiege guns, huge mortars, shells and ammunition, andgreat piles of commissary stores greeted the eye in everydirection. Thousands of soldiers were camped about,waiting for orders to proceed to the front, the directionof which was indicated by the occasional roar of a heavygun, and the sudden appearance of a little cloud of smokewhere the shell had burst in mid air. We were soon incamp with the rest of our brigade, which had arrivedsome time before, and it was not long before we hadglean
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