. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . was divided againstitself; brothers-in-arms of yesterday were enemies of to-day ; and no one spoke of the outlook at home except inbated breath and measured speech, from fear that the bittercup would overflow then and there, and water turn toblood. God grant that no officers in our time may everexperience the anxiety and distress of those who wereon foreign stations in 1860-61 ! The young lieutenant at last reached home, to find thecountry in the throes of war, indeed ; and, after a briefleave to recover his health, somewh
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . was divided againstitself; brothers-in-arms of yesterday were enemies of to-day ; and no one spoke of the outlook at home except inbated breath and measured speech, from fear that the bittercup would overflow then and there, and water turn toblood. God grant that no officers in our time may everexperience the anxiety and distress of those who wereon foreign stations in 1860-61 ! The young lieutenant at last reached home, to find thecountry in the throes of war, indeed ; and, after a briefleave to recover his health, somewhat shattered by ex-posure on the African coast, he was ordered as the exec-utive-officer of the Cayuga, one of the new gun-boats,carrying a battery of an 1 i-inch gun, a 20-pounder Par-rott, and two 24-pound howitzers. She was commandedby Lieutenant N. B. Harrison, a stalwart, loyal Virginian,and afterwards became the bearer of the divisional flag ofCaptain Bailey, leading the fleet through the obstructionsand past the forts at the time of the well-known ascent of40. Farraguts fleet towards New Orleans. Such confidencehad Harrison acquired in Perkins that he gave in hischarge the piloting of the vessel past the forts. lienoticed that St. Philips guns were all aimed at mid-stream,and so coolly steered right under the walls of the fort,—suffering much in masts and rigging, but little in the past the last battery, the officers looked back tofind themselves alone and in the presence of the enemysgun-boats and the ram Manassas. They sustained anunequal combat until the rest of the division arrived. Thiswas carried on muzzeto muzzle for a few moments. Whenrelieved from this entanglement the Cayuga pressedon, and at daylight captured the Chalmette regiment,encamped close to the river-bank. On arriving before New Orleans, Bailey and Perkinswent on shore to demand the surrender and the hoistingof the flag. How they escaped the fiendish mob whichsurrounded them on their way t
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