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orders to march for Baldwin where the rest of Regiment is stationed & where we shall go as soon as all the arms from Symrna have crossed the River. Also annother load of arms & amunition were brought by the steamer from Enterprize.
Thursday 27. To day we delievered our old arms up & were supplied with new Enfield Rifles with sabre bayonett. 40 cartridges were given to each man. Liutenant Irvin Drysdale & Private Dan. Mikler started for St. Augustine to try if could get into the town & see for themselves how things are
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going on. I feel some apprehension for those men yet I hope that nothing will happen to them. This afternoon Captain Bird’s companie & another one arived by the steamer from Enterprize who were stationed at New Symrna some of the men who were engaged in the fight there. A good many men had things with them which they took from the boats. a coats, Pistols, swords, &c. They also brought with them the three wounded Prisoners. One of them had 7 wounds, some slight & some very severe ones one had four wounds & one had a ball
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pass right through his thigh. Poor fellows. How I pitied them as every soldier of feeling must do not knowing how soon he may be in the same condition. Also part of a large companie left for Duns lake where they think to entrapp the expedition which is alreade in the lake or will be in pretty certain if this news from Symrne does not make them more cautious.
Friday 28. In camp a Hawkinsville. Another load of guns & amunition was brought down today. Many reports about the fight at Symrna
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are afloat. Some say that not more than 15 killed that the men in the boats dropped themselves overboard headforemost & swam away instead of being killed & falling overboard as is [surprised?]. They also had an 12 lb brass gun aboard which they threw in water.
Saturday 29. Today two steamer loads arived from Enterprize. The steamer "Hattie" had aboard about 800 kegs of powder, blankets, &c. & the "Gov. Milton" had also guns & ammunition. The officers killed at S. were as far as I could learn Kaptain Mather & Liutent
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Budd. An old Soldier who had been in a great many battles in Europe told me that he never saw men so shot to pieces as those were. Kaptain Rivers kompanie of cavalerie arived also from Symrna. Kaptain Smith from Palatka arived also this afternoon & brought news from the doings of the Federals on the St. John River & St. Augustine. He says that they went up Duns Creek into Duns Lake raised the jacht “America” & went back