Excerpt from History of the Fifth Regiment of Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, During Three Years and a Half of Service in North Carolina: January 1862-June 1865 Camp Harris - Scenes at Annapolis - The first pay day - Embark on the Kitty Simpson - Fortress Monroe - Under sealed orders Exciting encounter with a Union gunboat off Cape Hatteras in the night - Hatteras Inlet - Nature of the North Carolina coast The North Carolina Sounds - Nature of the in]et-glance at the sit nation - the, kitty Simpson hard aground - Danger threatens the battalion - Exciting scenes - Over the Bar - Captain Hepburn refuses assistance and sails his ship into the Sound - Safe at anchor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.