. The story of Company A, Twenty-fifth Regiment, Mass. Vols. in the the War of the Rebellion [electronic resource] . 6. & *» *> Goodbye a parting salute we marched away from Camp Hicks,amp wj1*cj1 ^acj Deen our home for two months. Reach- Hicks. ing Annapolis we went, after much delay, on boardthe steamer New York. Company I, Capt. Park-hurst, went on board the schooner Skirmisher,companies D and H on board the gunboat Zouave;and the New York took the other seven companies 23th Regt., Mass. Vols. 45 of the Regiment. When all was ready on board theXeiv York, the steamer pushed out a mile or
. The story of Company A, Twenty-fifth Regiment, Mass. Vols. in the the War of the Rebellion [electronic resource] . 6. & *» *> Goodbye a parting salute we marched away from Camp Hicks,amp wj1*cj1 ^acj Deen our home for two months. Reach- Hicks. ing Annapolis we went, after much delay, on boardthe steamer New York. Company I, Capt. Park-hurst, went on board the schooner Skirmisher,companies D and H on board the gunboat Zouave;and the New York took the other seven companies 23th Regt., Mass. Vols. 45 of the Regiment. When all was ready on board theXeiv York, the steamer pushed out a mile or so intothe stream and came to anchor. We now had timeto look around us, and a busy scene it was to gazeupon. The sleepy old town of Annapolis had notseen so much life in a century. Large numbers ofvessels of all descriptions,—steamers, sailing craft,tugboats, moving about in all directions ; others atthe various landings, loading or unloading,—all com-bined to make a busy picture such as the old townwill not see for another century This was thepreparation for the famous Burnside Expedition. 1862. <. ^ 4 Hon. CHAPTER IV. THE BURNSIDE EXPEDITION. JT WAS NOT until about 8 a. m. of January 9th, 1862. 1862, that the Burnside Expedition finally left theJan. 9. old town of Annapolis, and moved grandly out intoai lng the waters of Chesapeake Bay, the steamer ATewBumside -Brunswick, with Gen. Foster and staff on board,Expedi- takingr tne leacj; the New York, with the Twenty-fifth Massachusetts, being second in line. modestly took the small steamer Pickettfor his headquarters. There were over one hundredvessels in the expedition, and a grander sight couldhardly be imagined than was presented as it sailedaway from Annapolis town. Numbers of the steam-ers had sailing vessels in tow, and the Nciv Yorkhad an old canal boat towing astern, which bore theominous name of Bomb Shell. It was one of thefairest of fair days, and with flags and streamers fly-ing, bands playing, a
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