...eceived an honorable discharge. Major Pike, on assuming command at Fort Macomb, told me that the company to which I had been assigned at Ship Island was under orders to proceed to Mobile Bay, where Admiral Farragut was making preparations to attack the forts. Glory! Hallelujah! I shouted. The astonished major said, What! are you that anxious to have your head knocked off? Oh, no, not that, I answered,...