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Fort McAllister had the rebel flag flying, and occasionally sent a heavy shot back across the marsh to where we were, but otherwise every thing about the place looked as peaceable and quiet as on the Sabbath. The signal-officer had built a platform on the ridge-pole of the rice-mill.
Upon my word, Daly shows ingenuity. Look for the Hope, in that list, Bunting, you will find the English names printed first, in the end of the book." "'The Hope, or l' Esperance," read the signal-officer; "'36, lee capitang dee frigate dee Courtraii." "A single-decked ship after all! This affair is as bad as the d d nullus, ashore, there.
The signal-officer on Kenesaw reported that since daylight he had failed to obtain any answer to his call for Allatoona; but, while I was with him, he caught a faint glimpse of the tell-tale flag through an embrasure, and after much time he made out these letters-" C.," "R.," "S.," "E.," "H.," "E.," "R.," and translated the message "Corse is here."
"Your report and report of signal-officer received. I do not want you to let the enemy bluff you or your command, and I want you to distinctly understand this note. I do not advise rashness, but I do desire resolution and actual fighting, with necessary casualties, before you retire. There must now be no backing or filling by you without a superior force of the enemy actually engaging you.
'Anchor, I cannot, having lost my cables. Who the devil asked him to anchor?" "That's just it, sir. The signal-officer on board the Cæsar must have made some mistake in his flags; for, though the distance is considerable, our glasses are good enough to read them." "Perhaps Admiral Bluewater has set the private, personal, telegraph at work, sir," quietly observed Greenly.
A spiral staircase led to the main-deck below, and another to the first fighting-top above, in which staircase were small platforms where a signal-officer and two quartermasters watched through slits the signals from the flag-ship, and answered as directed by the captain below with small flags, which they mastheaded through the hollow within the staircase.
On the west gable of this mansion, on the afternoon of the battle, a signal-officer was stationed, with his ten-foot staff and odd-shaped parti-colored yard of muslin, and his field-glass.
Come, Bunting, give us the news." "'Stranger in the north-west shows the Druid's number;" the signal-officer read mechanically from the book. "The deuce he does! Then Bluewater cannot be far off.
"When a wrack is sighted," said the captain, "the signal-officer up stairs telegraphs to the other near stations, whose keepers at once send their lifeboats, cars and surfmen here. The ship is signaled by flags in daytime, by rockets at night." He opened a closet in which were arranged the cases of lights, with books of instruction for their use.
"Your report and report of signal-officer received. I do not want you to let the enemy bluff you or your command, and I want you to distinctly understand this note. I do not advise rashness, but I do desire resolution and actual fighting, with necessary casualties, before you retire. There must now be no backing or filling by you without a superior force of the enemy actually engaging you.
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