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Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Chapter 8: Olustee. (search)
ey's, then Barton's, the Artillery, and Montgomery's in rear guarding the train. Just before the Fifty-fourth started, Major Appleton was ordered to remain in command at Barber's, with Company E on picket, covering the railroad trestle, and Company A at Barber's house. Lieut. Lewis Reed, with thirty men, was to protect the telegraph line as the column advanced. In fine spirits, the Fifty-fourth, followed by the First North Carolina, began the march, while the men sang, We're bound for Tallahassee in the morning. The country was more open than that below. The road ran for long distances beside the railroad. Occasionally the forest widened out into savannas yellow with grasses and dotted with hemlock patches. From a clear sky the warm sun glistened and gleamed through the tall pines bordering the pathway. About every hour the brigade halted for a short rest. Sanderson, some nine miles from Barber's, was reached by our advance before noon. People there stated that the enemy w
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Appendix. (search)
f whom the record says, missing, supposed died prisoner, and nothing further. Our wounded appear to have been first taken to Lake City, Fla., and later to Tallahassee, Fla. In an article published in the Philadelphia Weekly Times of Sept. 19, 1885, Captain Robert H. Gamble, who commanded the Leon Light Battery in the engagement,that he was released from duty, so that his time could be given to his color, which he cheerfully did. Afterwards many colored wounded prisoners were brought to Tallahassee, and placed in the Masonic Lodge as a hospital, where they were carefully cared for. But another account, in the Charleston News of July 21, 1884, written by Florida Saxon, of Clarendon Co., S. C., says that— The public buildings [in Tallahassee] were converted into temporary hospitals for the prisoners. The wounded negro prisoners were taken to the seminary. Unfortunately we have no statement of their capture or imprisonment from any of the Olustee men who fell into the enem