Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-04-18


flom the work. Feeling your way around
these pitfalls, and meeting in your progress
tie iron doors of a magazine or two (and
there are others in the galleries before WIS.,
ited), you see at last a glimmer of light,
and following its direction, find yourself in
the gallery of the counterscarp, which sur
rounds the entire front of the place Be-
meath this are vaults for stores and ammuui-
ton, which we did not visit. This would
be the final stand of the garrison if driven
from the body of the place, aud when fur
ther resistance proved unavailing they would
net be compelled to surrender or be smoth-
cred like rats in their holes, but leaving
slow matches to the trains communicating
with their magazines, could retreat through
subterranean passages to Fort Barrancas.
4 portion of what we have described
was the result of a subsequent visit under
the guidance of the Captain, for before this
first inspection was complete the Red Ea-
giles had returned from their inspection,
and joining Captain Posey and the officers
of the Zouaves, we proceeded to his quar-
ters. The Red Eagles furnished us with
an agreeable surprise, for we confess we
have never entertained high opinion Of
the soldiers which the population of cities
furnishes to the recruiting service. Indeed
Captain Posey found at first that he had
some very Indifferent material but it does
not take long for soldiers to become dissat.
;s6ed with the service when they find that
both their commander and their comrades
are ashamed of them; and so when the op
portunity was offered of transferring them.
selves from the service of the State to that
of the Confederacy, these nsaucaases rejets
declined the offer and were comfortably got
rid of. Their places have since been part
ly filled by better men, and the Captain is
now justly proud of his company. AS usual
in American companies, there are men Of
every occupation among them, and one ot
them is baker, who is stationed at the
Navy Yard, where his military duties have
been commuted for that of supplying the
command with bread. Another of the spe
cial is Jenny Campbell, who has put in
order an old neglected garden in the real
of the redoubt, and is glorying in the Wis
ions of the salads, cabbages, peas and po
tatos with which his horticultural skill will
supply the post. We cannot do justice tc
the Captains cook, not having learned his
name, but an excellent dinner of bis provi
ding received full justice at the hands Of
some seven or eight guests, including the
Zouave officers and the feast was coaclu
ded with the usual accompaniment of an
ecdote and song, ending with the Marsei!
laise, and that was performed with rafting
accompaniment by the pet of the Red Ea
giles, long entant de la patrie, with seven
rattles and button, from which to hi:
fangs he measures about five feet and q
half. The seven rattles are understood te
be emblumatic of the Confederate States
but there is some dispute whether the but
ton stands for Arkansas or Virginia.
After dinner the whole party took Fort
Barranoas on their return. This is garri
soned by the Eufaula Rifles, whose tents
are pitched in the ditch In its genera
outline, it does not differ greatly from the
redoubt, though on larger scale, having
no hanking fire except from the epaulmeut<
of the counterscarp in the rear, the faces
fronting to the water being open and pier
ced for musketry, while the guns, twenty
five or thirty in all, are mounted on the
ramparts. The entrance is through the
glacis, and over drawbridge in the rear
In front is a communication under ground
with the old Spanish fort, which performs
the part of an outwork in front. This is
merely a semi circular battery Of ten or
twelve guns. Barrancas-or, more fully,
Fort San Carlos de Barrancas
the most commanding position of all the
works, and is directly in the line ofapproach
of vessels entering the bay, but its defen'
sive capabilities are not great.
As We walked the parade ground, the
Alabama regiment, consisting of ten stl oug
companies, was out for evening parade
After seeing them dismissed, We returned
to Warrington, and there, in company Of
the Zouaves, forgot the tirae until after the
gates we're closed. This, however, gave US
no concern, as our friends had the counter.
sign, but when, at length, one of them ac-
companied US to the gate to pass us in, it
appeared he had only q countersign, being
one Of three, and nevertheless, the Zouaves
were to relieve guard in the Navy Yard in
the course of the night. 1t was plain that,
in the language of Tennyson, "some one
had blundered," butt was hardly the Zou,
aves, for there were parole and counter
sign under the sign manual of the Generals
aid-de-camp. After trottiug back and for
ward for about half an hour, the Sergeant
of the Guard let us in, and we were soon
in the arms of Morpheus and the Kate Dale.
How We visited the lighthouse battery
next morning, how it is manned by the
Clayton Guards, how it is built of oat sacks
filled with sand, how the oats are growing
out all over it, how it is mounted with four
s inch Columbiads, how they would knock
the splinters out of Fort Pickens, how we
hadn't time to visit Fort MoRee, how we
left at 10 o'clock, how We saw that the
Broohlyn had joined the squadron during
the night, how we took the small chaDuel,
how we rounded Mobile Point at 6 o'clock,
and got to the city at 9-the printers say it
would be preposterous for us to attempt
telling.
Groans from on Board the Sabine.
A letter in the New York Times from a
person on board the frigate Sabine, station
ed at Pensacola, says: