MORE BOATS ASHORE AND
SINKING.
Three more boats ashore and leaking, one of them is the U. S.
mail-boat Suwanee, from Fortress Monroe for Hilton Head. She ran in here this
morning to leave mails and dispatches for this fleet, intending to sail this
afternoon, but owing to the high winds and heavy sea, she parted her cable and
drifted on an anchor fluke, breaking a hole in her bottom and sunk. She lies on
the sand, with her deck about four feet out of water. It is said she can be
pumped out and raised when it calms, of which time, however, there seems to be
a very dim prospect. We have just heard from the old steamer Pocahontas. She
went ashore below Hatteras light. She had our team horses aboard, and nearly
all of them were lost. The men who were aboard of her got ashore and are now
coming down the island. The schooner on which the signal corps were aboard has
not been seen or heard from and there is much anxiety for her safety. We have
kept alive on hardtack thus far, but on account of the storm no tug has been
able to get alongside with rations, and we going it with half a ration of
hardtack and coffee once a day. Five cents apiece are freely offered for
hardtack, with no takers.
SOURCE: David L. Day, My Diary of Rambles with the
25th Mass. Volunteer Infantry, p. 22-3
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