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: