{"id":1359,"date":"2012-05-01T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T13:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-shannon\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2021-12-03T00:05:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T05:05:31","slug":"june-4-6-1865","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/2012\/05\/01\/june-4-6-1865\/","title":{"rendered":"June 4 – 6, 1865"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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A wonderful voyage every one [sic]
\nsays including the Capt.
\nI<\/span> tried the hurricane deck
\nlast night for a bed + found
\nit preferable to my state room.
\nWaking up early I noticed the
\nCapt. on the wheel house with glass
\nlooking out for land, or rather for
\nwhite water.
\nMemory<\/span> Rock was sighted
\nabout 10 a.m. and from that
\ntime until toward night we
\nwere gratified with a panoramic
\nview of the Bahamas fringed
\nwith the beautiful green.
\nThen<\/span> \u201cIsaacs\u201d with the<\/p>\n

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revolving light.
\nCapt.<\/span> Hawkes and his 20 questions.<\/p>\n

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We<\/span> are now making for
\nKey West and are but a
\nlittle way from Havanna.
\nThe<\/span> weather slightly varied
\ntoday Already we have had
\ntwo furious rain storms accompanied
\nby an unusual amount of
\nthunder + lightning.<\/p>\n

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We<\/span> made up a consultation
\ngame of class against Gen.
\nDoubleday this p.m. + beat him<\/p>\n

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handsomely.
\nPassed<\/span> \u201cDry Tortugas.\u201d Genl. I.
\nsays that at the beginning of
\nthe war the government employed
\nslave labor paying the planters
\nfor the same. That is the most
\nopen support of the slave system
\nby the government that I ever heard
\nof.
\nWilson<\/span> after gazing at the
\nworks for a long time though
\nit would be \u201crather hard on
\na watchmaker to be confined
\nthere and handle those large
\nstone.\u201d \u201cWhen he got out he couldn\u2019t
\nset a main spring very easy I guess.
\nHe\u2019d have to commence on clocks
\nand work himself down gradually.
\nA very good beginning would be
\none of those old fashioned seven
\nfooter stand in the corner chaps<\/p>\n

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with a suit of rooms in the
\nlower story.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Last<\/span> night as our band was
\nplaying a brig under full sail
\npassed us on the left very
\nclose, so that we could look
\nupon her deck. I could see
\nno one but the helmsman.
\nIt<\/span> was a fine sight.
\nToday the Wilmington, one of our
\nfleet passed us, by taking a track
\ncloser to of<\/del> the Reefs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

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