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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), How the rumor of an attack on the Brooklyn Navy Yard grew. (search)
an Irishman named Patrick Meed wished to obtain work in the Navy Yard, and fancying that Jas. E. Kerrigan might have some influence in that quarter, he solicited it; and the two went over the rivers full at present. From thence they went to the machine shop; but met with no better success. Kerrigan said to his companion, Let us take a stroll down to the dock, the object being to see if work mhman said, This damned place ought to be burned up. The expression uttered by the companion of Kerrigan was enough, in the opinion of a few laborers who overheard it, to fix the idea in their minds tded to and reorganized, until the whole city was alarmed — and the authenticated fact that James E. Kerrigan was at the head of a large and secret army, and intended to take and burn down the navy yaxpression. But during the silent midnight hours, at which the attack was to be made, where was Kerrigan? The worthy leader of ten thousand rebels was quietly enjoying himself at the Brennan coterie,