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The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Reported capture of a whale. (search)
ow our poor fellows will get along I don't know — some of them without a shoe to wear, and many without a second shirt. Their sufferings you can better imagine than I can describe; yet they seldom grumble, except when they hear of peace meetings being held at the North, or when they think of those who were gallant soldiers in peace but are civilians in war. We — that is, the "New York mess," consisting of Col. Corcoran and Lieut. Connolly, Sixty-ninth; Capt. Farrish, Seventy- ninth; Capt. Downey, Eleventh; Capt. Griffin, Eighth, and your humble servant — would have been in the same predicament had it not been for the kindness of Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, who visited Col. Corcoran, and, seeing us without a bed to sleep on, sent us cots, mattresses, pillows, &c., and, without being solicited, lent Col. Corcoran some money, which he, with his usual benevolence, distributed among us. The Bishop told the Colonel to draw on him for whatever money he wanted. But we were not allowed <