nd under
convoy of the gunboat Norwich:

"40th Massachusetts Mounted Infantry, Col. Guy V. Henry.

"7th Connecticut, Col. J. R. Hawley.

"7th New Hampshire, Col. Abbott.

"47th, 48th and 115th New York, Col. Barton's command.

"The Phalanx regiments were: 8th Pennsylvania, Col. Fribley;
1st North Carolina, Lt.-Col. Reed; 54th Massachusetts, Col.
Hallowell; 2d South Carolina, Col. Beecher; 55th
Massachusetts, Col. Hartwell, with three batteries of white
troops, Hamilton's, Elder's and Langdon's. Excepting the two
last named regiments, this force landed at Jacksonville on
the 7th of February, and pushed on, following the 40th
Massachusetts Mounted Infantry, which captured by a bold
dash Camp Finnigan, about seven miles from Jacksonville,
with its equipage, eight pieces of artillery, and a number
of prisoners. On the 10th, the whole force had reached
Baldwin, a railroad station twenty miles west of
Jacksonville. There the army encamped, except Col. Henry's
force, which continued its advance towards Tallahassee,
driving a small force of Gen. Finnegan's command before him.
This was at the time all the rebel force in east Florida. On
the 18th Gen. Seymour, induced by the successful advance of
Col. Henry, lead his troops from Baldwin with ten days'
rations in their haversacks, and started for the Suwanee
river, about a hundred and thirty miles from Baldwin
station, leaving the 2d South Carolina and the 55th
Massachusetts Phalanx regiments to follow. After a fatiguing
march the column, numbering about six thousand, reached
Barbour's Station, on the Florida Central Railroad, twenty
miles from Baldwin. Here the command halted and bivouaced,
the night of the 19th, in the woods bordering upon a wooded
ravine running off towards the river from the railroad
track.

"It is now nineteen years ago, and I write from memory of a
night long to be remembered. Around many a Grand Army
Camp-fire in the last fifteen years this bivouac has been
made the topic of an evening's talk. It was attended with no
particular hardship. The weather was such as is met with in
these latitudes, not cold, not hot, and though a thick
vapory cloud hid the full round moon from early eventide
until the last regiment filed into the woods, yet there was