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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter army life and camp drill (search)
s that one's rides are so limited by the narrow limits of the dominion, a good part even of this being encumbered with prostrate trees to keep other people from riding. March 28. Colonel Montgomery has just returned from upriver, as far as Palatka; he landed incautiously and was fired upon. Lieutenant-Colonel--, who was with him, was just climbing up the wharf, had both hands up at the top of the ladder, and a buckshot went simultaneously through the fleshy part of each hand without touc, etc. He formerly lived in Jacksonville among other places, and was delighted to go there and get back a chest of tools; he is a brave little old thing, too, and stayed on deck when I drove all others under; and when Montgomery was surprised at Palatka and Lieutenant-Colonel--wounded, old Gomez tried to work the gun himself. After the Florida trip the regiment was picketed at Port Royal Ferry, South Carolina. April 12 . .. In the misty gray of the morning, I rode out to the ferry amid