. The long roll : being a journal of the civil war, as set down during the years 1861-1863 . ad been fired into the day twenty shots, mostly heavy shells, were sent into thetown by the different vessels, and then we landed, withoutopposition, and marched up a steep, clay bank, upon whichWinton is situated, I am told there were twelve hundred men,with three field-pieces, there the night before, but they beat ahasty retreat at our first shot, accompanied, I should judge,by every living soul of the village who could get away. Therehad been a ball or something in the way of rejoicing
. The long roll : being a journal of the civil war, as set down during the years 1861-1863 . ad been fired into the day twenty shots, mostly heavy shells, were sent into thetown by the different vessels, and then we landed, withoutopposition, and marched up a steep, clay bank, upon whichWinton is situated, I am told there were twelve hundred men,with three field-pieces, there the night before, but they beat ahasty retreat at our first shot, accompanied, I should judge,by every living soul of the village who could get away. Therehad been a ball or something in the way of rejoicing thenight before on account of our repulse. But it turned out any-thing but brilliantly, for the village was miserably plunderedand burned. Two men confined in the jail under the Court-housewould have been burned with the town, had it not been for oneof the gallant tars of the Barney, who chopped them took to their heels, as might be expected, with the doubleobject perhaps of escaping from justice as well as from theenemy. This same sailor told me he saw one other inhabitant104. ^-^W^;^ Lieutenant-Colonel Victor De Monteuil of the D Epaneuil Zouaves PL.\TE XXII
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