Rough weather still continues, and we are out of rations,
subsisting entirely on hardtack and a short ration of that. Unless it calms
down so a tug can get alongside, we shall be entirely out in a day or two more.
Three more boats dragged their anchors and went ashore this morning, and other
boats, with their flags union down, are calling for help. In fact, things are
beginning to look gloomy, but amidst all the trouble and discouragements, Gen.
Burnside is everywhere to be seen, flying about among the boats and vessels,
encouraging his men and looking as cheerful as though everything was going to
suit him. Today a rebel boat came down the sound to take a look at us. One of
our boats went out to meet her, but the rebel, not caring for an interview,
hauled off. The colonel, surgeon and one other man of the 9th New Jersey
regiment were drowned today, by the upsetting of a small boat they were in. And
so we go, trouble and dangers by sea, and I suppose there will be more by land,
if we ever get there.
SOURCE: David L. Day, My Diary of Rambles with the
25th Mass. Volunteer Infantry, p. 22
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