The hotel this morning was occupied by military, or rather
by creatures in uniform. One of the sentries stopped me; and on my
remonstrating to his officer, the latter blew up the sentry, and said, “You are
only to stop persons in military dress — don't you know what military dress is?”
“No,” responded this efficient sentry — and I left the pair discussing the
definition of a soldier. I had the greatest difficulty in getting a conveyance
down to the water. I saw a stone barricade in the distance, and heard firing
going on — and was not at all sorry to find myself on board the China.
SOURCE: Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, Three
Months in the Southern States: April-June, 1863, p. 311
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