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"We're rising her now, sir; and I can see one of her masts, though the rest of her spars seem to have gone by the board." "All right, my man, keep her in your eye," sang back the commander, who then turned to the helmsman. "Give her more lee helm, quartermaster; and see if you can't luff her up a couple of points! Watch, trim sails! Head lee braces! Brace up your head yards!"
Then go, and prosper: and be sure my Lord Crawford will treat you kindly, when he has once tasted my wine. The stroke of one in the morning, sounding after us from Farnham clock through the fine frosted air, overtook us well upon the road. I had made speed, and so had the quartermaster and cellarer. As for Sergeant Orlando Rich, if he had not achieved speed he had at least made haste.
Captain C.R. Holmes Assistant Adjutant General. Lieutenant W.M. Dwight Adjutant and Inspector General. Lieutenant D.A. Doby Aide de Camp. Lieutenant Jno. Myers Ordnance Officer. Major W.D. Peck Quartermaster. Major Kennedy Commissary. With a few privates for clerical service.
The King traveled further than usual that day to Clermont so we did not get shelter till late, and even then not without some confusion, for the quartermaster having set out toward Chalons before the change of programme was ordered, was not at hand to provide for us.
"Coming down from the northwest," reported a quartermaster. Captain Blowitt hastened on board of the Bronx, for it did not yet appear whether the vessel was a friend or an enemy. She was a steamer, and she left a thin streak of black smoke in the sky, which indicated that her coal came from British territory. The Havana and the schooners were left in charge of Mr.
Every man to his post, and every man with a knowledge of his duty. The First Officer called to the Quartermaster at the wheel in a voice which cut through the gale like a trumpet: 'Hard a port! Hard! The stern of the great ship swung away to port in time to clear the floating child from the whirling screw, which would have cut her to pieces in an instant.
Richard Peters, Governor Morris's secretary, wrote in his name: "Get a number of hands immediately, and further the work by all possible methods. Your expenses will be paid at the next sitting of Assembly. Do your duty, and oblige the general and quartermaster if possible. Finish the road that will be wanted first, and then proceed to any other that may be thought necessary."
"Make the course east by north, Mr. Bangs," added the first lieutenant. "East by north," repeated the quartermaster at the wheel when the order reached him. "I have just been aloft, and she flies the Confederate flag, Captain Passford," said Mr. Fillbrook. "She is a large steamer, and she is by no means as jaunty as the Vixen."
He had been an unsuccessful banker in Iowa, and early in the war obtained an appointment as assistant quartermaster of volunteers with the rank of captain.
After looking about and consulting with friends, among them my classmate Major Stewart Van Vliet, quartermaster at the fort, I concluded to accept the proposition of Mr. Ewing, and accordingly the firm of Sherman & Ewing was duly announced, and our services to the public offered as attorneys-at-law.
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