. Johnny Reb and Billy Yank . gallant he was. Just here Billy Harmon, of Company A, one of the most popularsoldiers in the regiment, came forward with a new plan: Why cant we take the steamer to the North Carolina coastand beach her? Then we can make our way to our lines withoutany trouble. A majority of the men agreed to this, and started for the door,with Billy at their head. Up sprang Colonel Marye and commenced talking at the rateof one hundred and fifty words a minute, and at last persuadedthem to have a ballot taken. A poll was then taken and it wasfound that a majority of one was in fav
. Johnny Reb and Billy Yank . gallant he was. Just here Billy Harmon, of Company A, one of the most popularsoldiers in the regiment, came forward with a new plan: Why cant we take the steamer to the North Carolina coastand beach her? Then we can make our way to our lines withoutany trouble. A majority of the men agreed to this, and started for the door,with Billy at their head. Up sprang Colonel Marye and commenced talking at the rateof one hundred and fifty words a minute, and at last persuadedthem to have a ballot taken. A poll was then taken and it wasfound that a majority of one was in favor of standing by their headofficer, and so the matter ended; but it was as Hartley expressedit: A d d close shave. A view of the sun rising from old Ocean was a spectacle thatmany of the squad had never before witnessed, and great was thewonder thereat. We were on the Atlantic, with not the slightesttrace of land. A school of porpoises sported around the vessel andintroduced themselves to landsmen, but Mother Careys chickens. fUl PRISON LIFK AT FORT WARREN 209 were objects of greater interest; indeed, everything we saw servedto amuse and fill the hours with a pleasant excitement. The breeze began to freshen up a little, for Neptune had no ideaof letting us go by without giving him the customary prisoner had eaten a hearty breakfast, but two-thirds ofthese Rebels had no appetite for dinner. Their cheeks began toturn white, their noses cold, and then one by one they would dis-appear. A roar of laughter followed each receding figure as aslight token of sympathy. They were all to be seen in the even-ing, however, lying around the deck or in the saloon in a state ofhopeless woe. The guards were in as bad a plight as the pris-oners, there being scarcely two of them out of the whole numberwho could hold their heads up. Some of the healthy ones played cruel jokes on their languish-ing sea-sick comrades thus wise: they took a piece of rancid porkand tied it to the end of
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