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The train, of course, soon disappeared; but I happened to be cruising close inshore, just there, as it passed, and they all turned their search-lights on me and opened fire." "All except the Iowa," corrected Captain Philip, with a smile. "Yes, all except the Iowa," assented Captain McCalla, laughing heartily, as if it were the funniest of jokes.
I was impatient to land and see the place where the American flag had first been raised on Cuban soil; but darkness came on soon, and it did not seem worth while to leave the ship that night. After breakfast on the following morning, I took a small boat and went off to the Marblehead to call upon Captain McCalla, who was in command of the station.
On the other hand, Dr. Berg was heard with general quiet by his opponents, and greeted with clamorous applause by his friends." I am afraid the above remarks were true. Still, Dr. Berg was almost a gentleman compared with Dr. McCalla, and he was vastly more of a scholar and debater, far as he was from being a model disputant. Dr.
McCalla, whose affectionate and devoted efforts to liberate her invalid husband, languishing in a British dungeon, have justly given her a high rank among the patriot women of the Revolution. Weeks elapsed after the capture of Mr. McCalla, before she was able, with the most assiduous inquiries, to ascertain the place of his confinement.
He enlarged my conception of the evil powers of wicked men, in the line of turning good into evil, and truth into lies, beyond all that I could otherwise have imagined. He did a hundred things, the least of which my poor limited capacity would have deemed impossible. He pursued the same course in the debate. He went as far beyond poor McCalla, as McCalla had gone beyond ordinary sinners.
Meanwhile the auxiliary cruiser Yankee bombarded and burned a Spanish blockhouse situated on a hill near the entrance to the lower harbor of Guantanamo, and on June 8 Captain McCalla, in the Marblehead, seized and occupied as far as he could do so without a landing force all that part of the bay which lies between the entrance and the narrow strait leading to the fortified post of Caimanera.
Commander McCalla of the Marblehead, ranking officer, instructed Lieutenant Anderson to call for volunteers to cut the cable early on the morning of the eleventh. Anderson issued the call on both the cruiser and the gunboat, and three times the desired number of men offered to serve. No one relented, even after repeated warnings that the service was especially dangerous.
"Who was that?" he asked. "His name is McCalla," she said. "I thought you didn't want to be bothered." "But how in thunder did you get rid of him?" he demanded. "Oh, I just wouldn't let him in," she replied demurely.
Captain McCalla, who was in command of Guantanamo, had sent his compliments and a launch, leading us in to our place of anchorage. The courtesies of the navy so early commenced at Key West were continued throughout the war. By invitation of Commander Dunlap our entire company visited the Solace the following day.
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