An officer may be pardoned some enthusiasm for such men as these.
The anxious night having passed away without an attack, another problem opened with the morning.

For the first time, my officers and men found themselves in possession of an enemy's abode; and though there was but little temptation to plunder, I knew that I must here begin to draw the line.

I had long since resolved to prohibit absolutely all indiscriminate pilfering and wanton outrage, and to allow nothing to be taken or destroyed but by proper authority.

The men, to my great satisfaction, entered into this view at once, and so did (perhaps a shade less readily, in some cases) the officers.

The greatest trouble was with the steamboat hands, and I resolved to let them go ashore as little as possible.