From same site as the April 12 post.
On December 10, 1864, he was aboard a transport heading for Fort Fisher, North Carolina.
"We were taken from our own boats and and put aboard of the Empire City to load 1600 colored men." He reports that the transport wasn't very large and it had twelve horses aboard.
On Christmas Day1864, as he was watching the Union fleet, he wrote that he would "have to brag of our fleet for there never was, never a finer fleet. Together it did us good to see our noble flag float over our noble ships with our brave men to protect them. It was a noble sight for us."
He continued, "on board of our boat we had tobacco we had to smoke, we had to eat our pork raw, we could not cook our coffee. But most times there was but one galley for 1700 men so that was too small a pot for so large a family."
He did not write any more about Fort Fisher.
--Old B-Runner
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