The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886

CHAPTER XXIX.

ON GUARD.

It was nearly two weeks from the unsuccessful attack upon Island Battery, the fifth and most disastrous that had been made. The morning after it the soldiers, sore over their defeat, had listened sullenly to the shouts of victory from within the French lines. Since then the combined attack by land and sea, planned and eagerly wished for by the two comma...