. The long roll : being a journal of the civil war, as set down during the years 1861-1863 . n in this world. And now these words come backto me with more than ordinary force, as if from a voice notyet quite dead. Note—No date. I did not write again on Hatteras Island. Day after daywe watched the vessels working over the Swash as anxiouslyas though they were giants straining at our deliverance. Slowlybut surely, they took their positions in deep water. A comradeand I paid a visit to a few of them, some four miles distant,in a small boat, with much satisfaction. In fact, so irksomehad become ou
. The long roll : being a journal of the civil war, as set down during the years 1861-1863 . n in this world. And now these words come backto me with more than ordinary force, as if from a voice notyet quite dead. Note—No date. I did not write again on Hatteras Island. Day after daywe watched the vessels working over the Swash as anxiouslyas though they were giants straining at our deliverance. Slowlybut surely, they took their positions in deep water. A comradeand I paid a visit to a few of them, some four miles distant,in a small boat, with much satisfaction. In fact, so irksomehad become our imprisonment on this Island that we lovedthe wiiole fleet as our deliverers from bondage. The Sketch of Hatteras at sundown, from Camp Wool,is about the essence of the last days of restrained * Cooner scudding homeward lightly on the waves,before a darkening sky; the sun sinking large and gloriousin its si)lcndor, dyeing the waves in wonderful hues; the hugepun booming over the brilliant waters, and while the whitecloud yet curls ui)war(l, we say— Farewell Hatteras !. 87 CHAPTER VII Roanoke Island On the U. S. Transport UnionPamlico Sound, February 3d, 1862. THE Union is an exceedingly rickety stern wheeler riversteamer, but of very light draught, not drawing morethan eighteen inches of water, which enables her to gointo very shallow places, which is, of course, her business. Ourboys, to whom such boats are not familiar, have so thoroughlyrechristened her that she is now known through the whole fleetas the Wheelbarrow. We struck tents at Camp Wool this morning, and the Com-pany is now quartered with Company E on the steam gunboatVirginia, it being the Flagship, I believe, of the Third Brigade,Third Division. Having been on Fatigue to-day, I will sleepaboard the Wheelbarrow to-night. U. S. Gunboat aboard to-day and reported to my Company. February nine oclock this morning the sailing signal wasdisplayed from the Flagship,
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