There is very little doubt but that we are surrounded and besieged. We
have come down to very small rations (small enough before) of pork and bread,
and no beef; and limited to half a dipper of coffee at a meal, while the work
is increasing, and hard work, too. This afternoon two companies of the 27th
went down the river to occupy a battery which the boats had silenced, but when
they arrived there they found it not so silent, and came back with the loss of
two men. Capt. Richardson made us a present to-day of some good tobacco, which
came acceptable enough, as we were about out. This has been a quiet day till
about four o'clock this afternoon, when the gunboats and rebel batteries at
Rodman's Point commenced firing; but we feel none of it up here.
SOURCE: John Jasper Wyeth, Leaves from a Diary Written While
Serving in Co. E, 44 Mass. Dep’t of North Carolina from September 1862 to June
1863, p. 46
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