... only the same afternoon, and their tents were not yet pitched. Their muskets were stacked along the roadside, and the men lay here and there wrapped in their blankets, and dozing around the fagots. ... floated along the strand,but, like them, the invulnerable monster had become the prey of the waves. The guns of the Rip Raps and the terrible broadsides of the Federal gunboats, had swept the Confederates ... greatlywith the docility, contentment, and unfailing good humor of their dusky tribe. The eyes of the children werelarge and lustrous, and they revealed the clear pearls beneath their lips as they...