Category: Biographies
I received General Meigs's order under which this ship came into our hands on Friday. She was then at Alexandria, and could not be got over the shoals to Washington. It was not till near night that I was able to get a lighter, and this, after one trip, was taken off to carry r...
(A.) We were "stampeded" last night. A train arrived, and the ladies were at the kitchen ashore getting tea ready. Dr. Ware went to the cars, as usual, and two or three wounded...
6. CHAPTER V.(A.) _May 31st._—Sick men arriving Friday night by the railroad could not be provided for in the crowded field-hospital ashore, which still remained of but one fifth the capacit...
4. CHAPTER III.Just before the _Ocean Queen_ left, a reinforcement of ladies and servants arrived from New York. A part of these were put on the _Queen_; temporary quarters were found for the...
5. CHAPTER IV.(A.) We are lying in the _Spaulding_ just below a burnt railroad-bridge, on the Pamunkey River, and, as usual, in the middle of the fleet of forage boats. The shores are at once...
3. CHAPTER II.(A.) _May 5th._ On Sunday the _Ocean Queen_, coming up from Old Point, grounded about five miles off the harbor, and I went down and put a few beds and men on board to assume a...
2. CHAPTER I.I received General Meigs's order under which this ship came into our hands on Friday. She was then at Alexandria, and could not be got over the shoals to Washington. It was not...
1. CHAPTER VI.