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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XII: the Black regiment (search)
o net; and on March 27, the Colonel in command noted that danger was about over and they were eagerly expecting further orders from General Hunter. Then came an order for the third evacuation of Jacksonville, and Colonel Higginson with his regiment sorrowfully returned to Beaufort. But in a few days relief came in the form of an order to go out on picket at Port Royal Ferry. This new field, the devoted son thus described in a letter to his mother. Advanced Picquet Station, Port Royal Island, April 8, 1863. We have happened into the most fascinating regions and life, riding all day through lanes overarched with roses and woods dense with young emerald leaves and looking across blue streams to the wooded and sunny mainland of South Carolina. A life that is as good as anything we have had, were only the zest of immediate danger added! A few days later he wrote:— This charming life among Cherokee roses and peach blossoms will last awhile . . . .How funny some of the