A War Diary of Events in the War of the Great Rebellion 1863 1865
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" We would and did. From their watery bed Captain Balch rescued some three or four large barrels filled with pow der, and so arranged with soft sheet-lead, covering friction primers in their bungs, that contact with our vessel s keel would explode them in the magazine. Certainly we had been in a dangerous neighborhood; but fate had soaked the powder with sea-water, despite the thick coating of tar or pitch by which the sunken barrels were protected. Over those that were undamaged by the water w...e managed to pass unhurt. One of these torpedoes I sent to the military school at West Point. Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom in peace, the price of victory in war. This continuous reconnoitring, this unceasing guard-duty, these pickets extended where they could best observe the ground which the enemy occu pied in our front, were only that we might know what we 270 A WAR DIARY. had to defend or attack. Every commander should be able at all times to place on paper a sketch of the forces and positions of his enemy.
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