Crossword-Solution: FERRYBOATS 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 18

For four days we went from place to place, in and about New York City's suburbs--now in town and now in the country--crossing rivers again and again on ferryboats--stopping at hotels, road houses and all manner of places--dashing through Brooklyn and out among the villages of Long Island--and with the fear on me that we were being followed.

The ferryboats were crowded with those who wished to leave the city, and a constant stream of the homeless, carrying such articles as they had rescued from their homes, was kept up all day long, seeking the sand dunes, the parks and every place uninvaded by the flames.

Meanwhile, General Meade had become assured of the same thing, and as he was now growing anxious about the fate of Wilson's division--which, during my absence, had been sent out to break the enemy's communications south of Petersburg, by destroying the Southside and Danville railroads--he sent ferryboats to cross me over the James.

The waters of the bay are as smooth as satin, as blue as the sky, and they are slashed in every direction with the silver wakes left by numberless ferryboats.

Those ferryboats, by the way, are extremely graceful; they look like white peacocks dragging enormous white-feather tails.