... convoy from James Island, about sixty miles up the river. The passage was somewhat hazardous, and very exciting. On landing, he says,— I should have been miserably helpless, had not General Devens sent down his orderlies, with horses and wagon, and Lieutenant Church Howe, aide-de-camp to General Sedgwick, to show me the way. We had to take refuge at this general's headquarters. This gave me ...