... as a sailor prompted him, and with a yell as from a speaking-trumpet came the order, Luff, d—n you, luff! This they understood, and coming up handsomely into the wind's eye took the road for Roxbury . The incident was a source of amusement in the papers at the time, and caricatures of it were printed. Colonel Brooks, though stationed from time to time in various parts of the country with h...