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            <title>James Merrill Linn Diary: 1861-1862</title>
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            <dateline>Tuesday January 14.</dateline>
            <p>It <objectName type="weather">blowed fearfully</objectName> and those outside the bar last night must have had a severely
               rolling time last night. The little <objectName type="vehicle">Picke</objectName>t, used by<persName> Burnside </persName>as his ship, is owned
               by her Captain, named <persName>Ives</persName>, who is a wealthy man, and offered his services and
               boat to the Government without pay and received a captain's commission. The steamship New York is fast on the bar. <objectName type="weather">The surf is so bad</objectName> that the tugs
               can't get near it. And the captain won't allow a boat to go ashore. The officer's mess is out of provisions. We have no <objectName type="food">meat</objectName> &amp; came down to the last scrapings
               this morning. There is a little fellow, nominally a servant of <persName>Capt. Blair</persName>, as
               peculiar as <persName>Blair</persName> too, goes by the name of Bucktail. He is about 15 years old,
               with small, turned up features, wears a belt with a bayonet &amp; scabbard, large
               blouse and large pants. He is from <placeName>Tyrone</placeName>. Father &amp; Mother dead, all from
               <placeName>Tyrone</placeName> - got into camp at<placeName> Harrisburg</placeName>, in the employ of some of the serjts - &amp;
               one night about ten o'clock came up to <persName>Blair's </persName>tent, saying that they had turned
               him out. He started with ten cents - bought newspapers &amp;c - <persName>Blair</persName> lent him five
               dollars at<placeName> Camp Union</placeName>: because with his little capital he had to go to town so
               often to replenish - He has paid that back - &amp; has now some ten or fifteen dollars.
               The other day he got terribly sea sick and someone told him to take a dose of salts.
               He came in and wanted <persName>Blair</persName> to get him a dose, &amp; could hardly be persuaded to
               the contrary. I think his name of Bucktail came from his having some kind of an
               animals tail pinned on to his hat. The <objectName type="weather">wind has blown stormily</objectName> all day. A little
               gun boat dragged her anchor and has come against us twice. We have just heard this
               evening that the Scout with other sailing vessels have come in. The steamship <placeName>City of New York</placeName> is still aground - they cut away her mast, and her smokepipe came down
               this afternoon. Of all desolate looking places this beach is the most desolate.
               Those that hold her must have a very disagreeable time. We are getting down to the
               originals in our officers' mess. We have no <objectName type="food">soft bread</objectName>. At noon we had <objectName type="food">pea soup</objectName> and
               hard bread, and the adjutant fished up a little bunch of <objectName type="food">butter</objectName> out of his haversack and gave us a <objectName type="equipment">knife</objectName> full. This evening we had <objectName type="food">hard bread</objectName>, <objectName type="food">cooked rice</objectName> and
               <objectName type="drink">tea</objectName>.</p>
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            <fw>Tuesday January 14. <placeName>Hatteras Inlet</placeName></fw>
            <p>I remember of hearing Mother often remark that <objectName type="food">rice</objectName> was such a tasteless thing
               when cooked without <objectName type="drink">milk</objectName>. This was evidently cooked with <objectName type="drink">water</objectName>. We had no <objectName type="food">butter</objectName>.
               The <objectName type="food">hard bread</objectName> is good - the <objectName type="drink">tea</objectName> is good, the <objectName type="food">rice</objectName> seasoned with <objectName type="food">salt</objectName>, and <objectName type="food">sugar</objectName> to
               make it gritty was good. I don't know what we are to have tomorrow. I see
               <persName>Commisary Shorkley</persName> in anxious consultation with the Quartermaster. We have seen
               the ships lying outside all day - but I hear that most of them have got in. We
               conjecture that the first attack will be on <placeName>Roanoke Island</placeName>. <objectName type="weather">The surf ran so high</objectName>
               that the Captain would not allow his boats to go ashore, so that we have not had
               any communication with anyone.</p>
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January 14, 1862