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t1We arrived at Baltimore about 9 o’clock P. M., having been aboard some forty hours; here we disembarked and marched to a Union Relief Association for breakfast This association is gotten up in innnitation of the Philadelphia one, with this slight difference; the government pays the expenses thereof. We found the people of Baltimore very law abiding but sour and sulky. Not a cheer greeted us and so far as I could discover, not even a joyous look was manifested. They had just got the news of the brilliant achievements of the Merrimack which gave them a ray of hope. Maryland is loyal because Fort Henry frowns upon her with a hundred guns, and for the further reason that ten thousand troops are stationed in her vicinity. We were directed to encamp at Camp Patterson; but ere we were disembarked, an order was issued directing us to report ourselves to Gen. Wool without delay. When that order was received by the troops cheer after cheer rent the air, showing that our troops were anxious for the fray. Wel| were soon on board of the Columbia, a | ] government transport for this Fortress. Here we found all excitement and alarm. The fight between the Merrimack and the Cumberland resulted in showing that the Merrimack was the master of this position, had it not been for the providential arrival of the Monitor.— This ship is unlike anything ever before seen upon the sees. It looks more than anything else I ever saw, like a log raft with a cheese in the centre as big as the one presented to Gen. Jackson during his Administration, which is called a tower, and yet it is a defiant craft. Everyday it makes a trip within direct and easy range of the rebel batteries and still they do not think it worth while to waste their ammunition upon a thing upon which ball and shell have no effect. The Merrimack is also a nondescript and a formidable craft altogether unsurpassiblc in its destruction and defensive propertiesuntil the invention of the Monitor. Imagine one of our Allegheny mud turtles with its head and back out of water and you will have an accurate idea of the appearance of the Merrimack. We are now stationed under the guns of the Fortress, making a force of some ten thousand men. Gen. McGruder with a force variously estimated from ten to forty thousand men within fifteen miles of our camp and yet we are perfectly safe for the reason that w© are protected by the Fortress
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Warren Mail
Warren, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Mar 29, 1862
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