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In February the regiment was ordered to Florida, and all was excited anticipation. The Colonel wrote home:—

The expedition is a very powerful one–where I went with 1000 men Gen. Seymour goes with 10,000 including 3 brigades of infantry, eight batteries and 2 mounted regiments. It is not therefore expected that it will take much fighting to repossess Florida, though there may be some marching. Nobody knows what the plans are.

A few days later, he added:—

The steamer is come at last and we go on board the Delaware to-morrow morning. So that matter is settled. The officers and men were all very desirous to go and I should have been sorry had we not done so.

To Dr. Rogers, Colonel Higginson wrote an account of this plan and its outcome:

Headquarters, 1st S. C.V., Camp Shaw, Beaufort, S. C., Feb. 20, 1864.
Such a time as we have had this last fortnight. Sent out on picquet Monday—sitting in great hilarity on Wednesday eve, with a blazing fire, and suddenly summoned back by telegraph that we might be ready to move at a moment's notice—then moving in next day, full of hopes of Florida—hopes checked by Gen. S.'s remonstrance—then a definite order to go when the 4th N. H. came and to


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