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division, while the whole number released was estimated at six thousand.
Our train was very large, for besides innumerable vehicles, five hundred horses and mules were secured, of which number the Fifty-fourth turned in one hundred and sixty.
Having taken possession of the old camp, the regiment rested.
By the 28th troops began to depart for other posts.
A tragedy occurred in the Fifty-fourth, on the 30th, when Private Samuel J. Benton shot and killed Corp. Wm. Wilson, of Company A, in a private quarrel.
Benton was tried and sentenced to imprisonment, serving time until December, 1865, when he was pardoned.
Orders came for the Fifty-fourth to report at Charleston, when transportation could be furnished.
Captain Bridge, with Companies A, F, and H, embarked on the steamer Island City, May 4, and sailed, accompanied by Colonel Hallowell, in the morning.
Lieutenant-Colonel Hooper, with Companies D, E, G, and K, sailed on the same steamer, May 6th; and the next day Major Pope, with Companies B, C, and I, followed on the ‘Loyalist.’
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