...pt up a tremendous fire. It is now pretty much over, but still going on; no shells have burst nearer than three hundred or four hundred yards from my camp. It took me about five minutes to awaken Marcy ; he did not hear a single shot. . . . Still some firing-now heavy again; gunboats at work — they were very slow in getting ready. A queer thing this, writing a letter to my wife, at this time...