St. Simon's Bay, January 24.
At nine this morning we entered this bay expecting to find
the John Adams waiting for us, but she was not to be seen. We dropped
anchor and the Colonel and I went on board the gunboat Potomska. There
we found a remarkable negro who resides on St. Simon's Island and who informed
us that he knew of a quantity of Railroad iron, that was used in the
construction of a fort, below, on the shore. So while waiting for the John
Adams, the surf boats were manned and men enough taken ashore to secure
about two thousand dollars worth of this new iron which is much needed at
Hilton Head.
With Lieut. West, I went up to the Hon. Thomas Butler King's estate, and confiscated a nice bath tub and three new windows for my hospital, which has only shutters. At four this afternoon the John Adams steamed down the bay.
SOURCE: Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume 43, October, 1909—June, 1910: February 1910. p. 348
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