Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-02-20
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Pamlco Sound Feb. /, 1862
Edao- Of "a, Daily Hraid
DEAR SIR,-Since my last letter. wa
have moved many miles, lut not in the d.
rection many supr osed W. should. We leN
Fortress Monroe with very pleasant weather
but many hoars had not passed before we
were having fine wind. II soon increased
10 gale. aud the men became sick and
turned in for e. of falling overbosrd should
they stay outsidr--or Al least | calculated
that TO be the trouble, as they reel:A some.
We passed fearful night on Cape Hat
teras, one that will never be forgotten BY
your correspondent There was great dan.
ger of our going in among tn, breaken,
We got well nigh among them. The captain
OF the boa, was determined 10 shove u
! over the bar or on 10 It, when the General
sent aud had him arrested, The ship wa,
turned back, and we ran back twenty-five
miles and came 10 anchor, j am not in,
clined to be yer, mid but must sayl feb
rather funny that night. 1t was said BY
those who ought to know that the captain d
the boat was drunk, and think he was, or
he never would have ron the steamer within
twenty minutes Of destruction as he did
Such men are put into Cor at least i seems
SOY, the most responsible places. Had The
captain had his own way, we should not
have been IN Pamlico Sound to-day. TheCiB
of New York went to pieces in plain sight Of
us She could not be got off the bar. We
have had some considerable sickness since
| leaving Annapolis, having lost two by fever
GU, of the 2lst Massachusetts Regiment
January IS, Col. Allen and Surgeon Weller
| of the 9th New Jersey Regiment, and the
FIRST mate of a ship the outside, come to make
us visit When leaving, the Colonel said
be must 90 and see bis men, and ell they
| started in surf boat. Ii was overturned
and all three drowned. The remains VI
Colonel Allen and Surgeon Weller Were
recovered, but the mates could not be rel
! covered. Col. Allen and Surgeon Weller
bodies were buried on shore. They received
the respect due them, by both officers all
men. Our priyates, some of them, are bprls!
from the after part Of the boat. ..r
| We have been on board Of the steamer a
most month, but long before you recsin
this, we shall be on the soil of North Can
lima. / will not endeavor to say where W
are gong, but will say We are headed to'
I ards Roanoke Island this morning. aal
4 Probably before this reaches you, the tel
graph will have informed you Of our leayil.
this place. We have had some little exca
ment The. rebels send up a gunboat II
| look after US occasionally, but they run hk,
fun when one Of our gunboats goes out 4
give them . salute. Yesterday sail how
in sight out towards Roanoke Isla I'd, wbe
one Of our boats took after it, and overtCs
| it and fetched il back II proved to be
boat beloaging to the ssutherners, loaded VII
wood. Three men were on the boat, and an
here in confinement, and the wood will b
used for our benefit. A rebel deserter va
picked up some days ago. He reports hitee
thousand rebels on the Island, and twelve
gunbosts there to give Goldsborough recsP
ton. t#Qa
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