I was half my time in St.Augustine or on the road, and remember the old place with pleasure.

In February we received orders transferring the whole regiment to the Gulf posts, and our company, G, was ordered to escort Colonel Gates and his family across to the Suwanee River, en route for Pensacola.

The company, with the colonel and his family, reached Picolata (where my detachment joined), and we embarked in a steamboat for Pilatka.

Here Lieutenant Judd discovered that he had forgotten something and had to return to St.Augustine, so that I commanded the company on the march, having with me Second-Lieutenant George B.Ayres.

Our first march was to Fort Russell, then Micanopy, Wacahoota, and Wacasassee, all which posts were garrisoned by the Second or Seventh Infantry.