Very little sleep on board the boat last night. Passing
around New York the boat landed at Pier No. 2, North River, at about 6 A. M.
The transport steamer Kill-von-Kull was at the pier waiting for us. Marched
across the pier on board to the music of the band. When all were on board the
Kill-von-Kull, the City of Boston sailed away and with it the band. The last tune
we heard the band play was “The Girl I Left Behind Me,” and the strains in the
distance coming across the water to us were “Home, Sweet Home.”
The Kill-von-Kull soon got under way. Reported that we were
going to Elizabethport, N. J. It proved to be a very pleasant trip. The weather
fine. We were saluted by passing boats and the people along the shores. Late in
the day we arrived in Elizabethport, safe and sound. We found a long train of
cars waiting for us. All railroad lines leading to Washington were crowded with
troops hurrying on in response to the President's call for three hundred
thousand more men.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lynch, The Civil War Diary,
1862-1865, of Charles H. Lynch 18th Conn. Vol's, p. 7-8
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