March 16, Evening.
The second floors of
the warehouses on Bay street make capital quarters for our troops. The rebels
burned many of the stores of Union men and would have burned their private
dwellings if it could have been done without endangering their own.
One of our pickets
came in today with a conical ball in his foot and complained that “de cunnel
stood out forwad ob we lookin at de revels [rebels] wid de glass an wouldn't
let we fire.” The Colonel afterwards told me that the range was so long that it
would have been a waste of ammunition.
SOURCE: Proceedings
of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume 43, October, 1909—June,
1910: February 1910. p. 376
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