The First Day's Fighting

All our stores at the bottom, and to make things worse, only two guns out of the five remained in a state for service. At any rate, the boat sank by the stern. State gently, in three feet of water, leaving the captain and myself, facing each other, on our feet. The other three took complete headers, and came up again drenched and bubbling. So far there was no great harm, no lives were lost, and we could wait ashore in safety. To add to our concern, we heard voices already drawing nearest in the woods along shore. We had not only the danger of being cut off from the stock-cade in our half-crippled

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