. King's handbook of Boston harbor. ir temporarywrong-headedness, theymust have always loved,— the flag of their ownWashington and Jacksonand Scott and Taylor andDecatur and Maury. In May, 1862, the fortreceived a lot of prisonersfrom the battles belowNew Orleans, includingsix officers of the rebeliron - clad Louisiana,Gens. Gautt and Hansonwere also among the case-mate-lodgers ; and manyofficers of the Texas, Louisiana, and Tennessee volunteers. The shiveringConfederates found themselves in a place where the East Wind was king,and Cotton had no regal powers. The garrison, by education comfort
. King's handbook of Boston harbor. ir temporarywrong-headedness, theymust have always loved,— the flag of their ownWashington and Jacksonand Scott and Taylor andDecatur and Maury. In May, 1862, the fortreceived a lot of prisonersfrom the battles belowNew Orleans, includingsix officers of the rebeliron - clad Louisiana,Gens. Gautt and Hansonwere also among the case-mate-lodgers ; and manyofficers of the Texas, Louisiana, and Tennessee volunteers. The shiveringConfederates found themselves in a place where the East Wind was king,and Cotton had no regal powers. The garrison, by education comfortabletownsmen, who had never felt the sleet rattle around Mackinaw, or the fur-nace-blasts of the gales blowing from the Gulf around Pensacola and theTortugas, endured here new and distressing climatic conditions. Thesentry-posts were often made untenable by the dashing of the waves, andthe guards had to be replaced by patrols. No wonder that the unfortunatesentinels saw mysterious shapes, so that an order was posted at the guard-. The Bug Light at Low Tide. 208 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. house, denouncing severe punishment in any case where ghosts wereallowed to pass a beat without challenge and arrest. Slowly, as this vague solution of town train-bands crystallized into dis-ciplined infantry, the men found new themes to interest them, and arouse agenuine military enthusiasm. In Col. F. J. Parkers Thirty-second Regi-ment there are many interesting details of garrison-life here, and storiesof bluff old Col. Dimick. He says, To one who thoroughly explores theisland, there will recur vivid reminiscences of the mysterious castles ofromance and of history. He will find here a sally-port, a postern, a draw-bridge, and a portcullis. Here, too, are passages underground and in thewalls; turret staircases, huge vaulted apartments, and safe and dark dun-geons. ... It only needs a dark and windy night to make almost real thedescription of the Castle of Udolpho, with its clanging so
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