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Jakacki</persName> <orgName>Bucknell University </orgName> </name> <resp>Professor, Lead Investigator</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <name> <persName>Junior Alejandro</persName> <orgName>Bucknell University</orgName> </name> <resp>Encoding editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <name> <persName>Matteo Antenucci</persName> <orgName>Bucknell University</orgName> </name> <resp>Encoding editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <name> <persName>NinaArsov</persName> <orgName>Bucknell University</orgName> </name> <resp>Encoding editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <name> <persName>Caroline Colucci</persName> <orgName>Bucknell University</orgName> </name> <resp>Encoding editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <name> <persName>Drew Fisher</persName> <orgName>Bucknell University</orgName> </name> <resp>Encoding editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <name> <persName>Olivia Garcia</persName> <orgName>Bucknell University</orgName> </name> <resp>Encoding editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <name> <persName>Harvey Harvison</persName> <orgName>Bucknell University</orgName> </name> <resp>Encoding editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <name> <persName>Reilly Hope</persName> <orgName>Bucknell University</orgName> </name> <resp>Encoding editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <name> <persName>Matti Kruger</persName> <orgName>Bucknell University</orgName> </name> <resp>Encoding editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <name> <persName>Selena Liu</persName> <orgName>Bucknell University</orgName> </name> <resp>Encoding editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <name> <persName>Gayda Makki</persName> <orgName>Bucknell University</orgName> </name> <resp>Encoding editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <name> <persName>Ben Maya</persName> <orgName>Bucknell University</orgName> </name> <resp>Encoding editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <name> <persName>Calvin McGuire</persName> <orgName>Bucknell University</orgName> </name> <resp>Encoding editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <name> <persName>Natalie Monroe</persName> <orgName>Bucknell University</orgName> </name> <resp>Encoding editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <name> <persName>Luke Nowicki</persName> <orgName>Bucknell University</orgName> </name> <resp>Encoding editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <name> <persName>Ori Raz</persName> <orgName>Bucknell University</orgName> </name> <resp>Encoding editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <name> <persName>Grayson Renkert</persName> <orgName>Bucknell University</orgName> </name> <resp>Encoding editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <name> <persName>Amadou Samb</persName> <orgName>Bucknell University</orgName> </name> <resp>Encoding editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <name> <persName>Ben Samuels</persName> <orgName>Bucknell University</orgName> </name> <resp>Encoding editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <name> <persName>Rose Schmidt</persName> <orgName>Bucknell University</orgName> </name> <resp>Encoding editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <name> <persName>Nyah von Haam</persName> 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</dateline> <p>It commenced <name type="weather">snowing</name>, and on the whole was a very disagreeable day. This after noon or evening I started to go on board the <objectName type="vehicle ">Cossack</objectName>, I went with <persName>Lt Blair</persName>,<persName type="person "> Brown & Conolly </persName>seamen, & a half dozen others. It <name type="weather">rained</name> and grew dark on us before our weary tramp of five or six miles through the <binaryObject type="nature ">sand</binaryObject> ended at the Pig point battery. As the <persName>cook</persName> pointed out where our <objectName><objectName type="vehicle ">boat</objectName></objectName> lay, visions of hot coffee and warm <objectName><objectName type="food ">biscuit</objectName></objectName> rose before me - decent <objectName><objectName type="drink ">coffee</objectName></objectName> we had not since we left the <placeName type="ship "><objectName type="vehicle "> Cossack</objectName></placeName> - & that was nothing like <persName>Dick</persName> can make. Our vexation can be imagined faintly when we found the<objectName type="vehicle "> boat</objectName> gone - we were five miles from our camp and it would take two hours to make it - it was <name type="weather">snowing</name>. We made various attempts to get over - we started to get quarters. Our <objectName><objectName type="clothing ">clothes</objectName></objectName> were wet we had no <objectName><objectName type="equipment ">blankets</objectName></objectName> - We found a little house whose whole front had been knocked out with a shell - built a <objectName><objectName type="nature ">fire</objectName></objectName> with about a half cord of <objectName type="nature ">wood</objectName> at a time and got just inside the house. Oh, but it was miserable It was the longest night I had yet spent, of all the miserable nights I had spent since I left the <objectName type="vehicle ">Cossack</objectName>. About eleven o’clock we were roused with the news brought there, to the headquarters, we were not aware they were in a shanty close by that the gunboats had run past the fortification at <placeName type="City ">Elizabeth City</placeName>, slap against the <objectName>gunboats</objectName> boarded them set <objectName type="nature ">fire</objectName> to & burned five, the Jamy among the number, captured one, then turned their attention the fort, landed, spiked the <objectName type="equipment ">guns</objectName>, blew up the fortifications. The rebels set fire to the City, blew up the locks. The mayor of the City came off and surrendered to<persName type="City "> Capt Rowan</persName>, and requested him to assist in putting out the <objectName><objectName type="nature ">fire</objectName></objectName>. <persName>Rowan</persName> said that he could not consent to land & if they saw fit to fire the City he could not help it - that he could not lie under the imputation of having fired it. </p> </div> </body> </text> </TEI>