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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 17: Sherman's March through the Carolinas.--the capture of Fort Fisher. (search)
who commissioned John Hay, one of his private secretaries, as major, and sent him Jan. 13, 1864. to Hilton Head, to join the proposed expedition, as the representative of the Executive, to act in a civil capacity should circumstances require. Gillmore placed Feb. 5. the expedition under the command of General Truman Seymour. It was embarked Feb. 6. at Hilton Head, on twenty steamers and eight schooners, and went down the coast under convoy of the gun-boat Norwich. It entered the St. John's River the next day, and arrived at Jacksonville at 5 o'clock that afternoon. Feb. 7. The troops were landed without other resistance than a few shots from a Confederate force there, which turned and fled before a company of colored troops sent in pursuit of them. Jacksonville was in ruins, and only a few families, composed mostly of women and children, remained. Seymour, pursuant to instructions, immediately marched Feb. 8. from Jacksonville to Baldwin, in the interior, at the junction