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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
gren. As he made no haste to reply, the President prevailed upon him on January 13th to devote a part of his forces to the re-establishment of the Federal power in Florida, where he believed a goodly number of Unionists to be. Whether it was that his message travelled fast or that Gillmore anticipated the President's desires, he wrote to him on the 14th a proposition for an expedition into the interior of Florida. With every latitude allowed him to direct and organize it, he embarked on February 6th at Hilton Head with Seymour's division. This, divided into three infantry brigades under Colonels Barton, Hawley, and Montgomery, comprised two regiments of cavalry under Colonel Henry and four batteries of artillery— about seven thousand men, all told. The convoy, composed of twenty transports escorted by two gunboats, entered the next morning a deep estuary known by the name of the St. John's River. No one had expected the Federals on this side, so that before the end of the day the