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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The battle of Olustee, or Ocean Pond, Florida. (search)
ion of Florida to her allegiance, etc. It was known that the few Confederate troops in east Florida were widely scattered, and no opposition was anticipated until reenforcemnents gould arrive. Celerity of movement was therefore important. General Seymour promptly marched in-land,--Colonel McCormick, commanding a picket at McGirt's Creek, retiring,--captured five field-pieces which the Confederates could not move for want of horses, and reached Baldwin, twenty miles from Jacksonville, February 9th, where he was. joined by General Gillmore. Colonel Guy V. Henry, commanding a small brigade of cavalry and mounted infantry, marched westward, encountered a picket of about 150 men at the crossing of the south fork of the St. Mary's River, which, with the loss of twenty-five of his men, killed and wounded, and without loss to the Confederates, he dislodged, and proceeded to within three miles of Lake City, when he was recalled, and on the 11th joined the main body, which had reached Barbe
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Gordon's attack at Fort Stedman. (search)
Confederates had silenced the pickets in front of Fort Stedman by taking advantage of General Grant's order of amnesty to deserters from the enemy. This order encouraged these deserters to bring in their arms, by offering payment for them. Copies of the order referred to had been distributed in quantities, inside of the Confederate lines, during the autumn previous, and had the effect of inducing deserters to plan to get away in squads. My diary states that on the night of February 24th nine deserters came in on our brigade front, and on the next night fourteen, including a commissioned officer, many of them fully armed and equipped.--G. L. K. On this occasion Confederates claiming to be deserters came in in large numbers, and very soon overpowered the pickets and passed on to the first line of works. It was the intention of the Confederates to surprise Fort Haskell also. The Reverend Charles A. Mott, now (1888) pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, Philadelphia, was a corp