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ladies who had previously planned a festival for him in the City Hall! Heaven forgive me if I wrong him, but he is an uncommon baby, for his size. .. . They crack some jokes on him, the officers; some say the rebels tried to crucify him; others that he knelt to pray for mercy and so the shots went through the uplifted hands. On the very day of Montgomery's return, March 28, a sudden order came to evacuate Jacksonville. In the excitement of departure the disappointed colonel wrote on March 30: On board Steamer John Adams, Mouth of St. John's River The only time since I entered the service when I have felt within the reach of tears was when, after the men were all on board at Jacksonville, I walked back among the burning buildings (set on fire by the white soldiers, not by mine) and picked a tea-rosebud from the garden of my headquarters. To think that this was the end of our brilliant enterprise and the destruction of my beautiful city was a sadder thing than wounds or dea