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Expulsion of Rebel Families, St. Augustine
| Date(s) of Letter(s) | Fretwell,
Jacqueline, Ed. Civil War Times in St. Augustine. St. Augustine, Florida: St.
Augustine Historical Society, 1986. Little, Henry F. W. The Seventh Regiment New
Hampshire Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion. Concord, New Hampshire: The Seventh
New Hampshire Veteran Association, 1896.
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| January 31, 1863 February 4, 1863 February 8, 1863 |
"At the end of
January 1863, another order came to expel all in St. Augustine who had sons or husbands in
the rebel army. This time the expulsion was carried out in a more orderly manner.
A ship bearing refugees was sent north on February 2 and again on February
9....Colonel Putnam refused to allow Negro troops to guard the women and children on the
transport and sent some men of the Seventh New Hampshire." The group was put
off at Fernandina, where "Confederate cavalry, escorting a train of oxcarts met them
and, in a cold pouring rain, set off for Lake City. The steamer continued north,
dropping off groups of women and children at several Southern ports."
(Fretwell, p. 34). "February 2, the steamer Boston left with a portion of the civilians who had been ordered outside the lines, and Company K was detailed to go with them as guard; they were sent to Fernandina, Fla., where they were sent beyond our lines under flag of truce. On the 6th, the same steamer took away another load of civilians to Hilton Head, S.C." (Little, p. 91). |