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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
� 103 April 24
We had a splendid trip yesterday afternoon returning in the night.
After sailing not quite two hours we reached the Steamboat landing at Fortress Munroe. Any one who had studied the maps would have recognized the place at once. On the left about half way to Sewalls Point -- so it looked - were the Rip Rap with splendid fortifications going up. Right opposite across the waters could be [inserted] plainly seen the Rebel Earth works on Sewalls Point. Further to the right and two hundred yards from us lay the Monitor -- that thing of power and wonder -- on duty watching for the Merrimac. Still farther to the right lay the Nangatuck with her costly and steel pointed