A gun-boat was to take one of the Commission's steamers to Fortress Monroe, and all that day the fleet kept on firing at our--at the Confederate batteries over the river"-- she corrected herself wearily--"and I was so afraid, that Ailsa's steamer would try to get out----" "Did it ?" "I don't know.

There are so many, many boats at the landing, and there's been so much firing, and nobody seems to know what is happening or where anybody is.

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