Letters, Newspaper Articles,
Books and Reminiscences
of Olustee

Editor's note: These accounts are not the official reports of the battle. Instead, they are letters, remininscences, newspaper accounts and excerpts from books written by the particpants or others. As such, there are a number of inaccuracies—even the official reports contain many inaccuracies—but I have reproduced them exactly as written, including spelling errors. The value of these materials, as opposed to the Official Records, is in the personal recollections of incidents and actions of the writers themselves. Any comments in brackets [example] are made by myself to assist others in placing an incident or unit in prespective when the author does not do so. — Thomas R. Fasulo, Webmaster

• The Will of Zachary Lee, 64th Georgia — March 1863

• Sgt George R. Pace, 64th Georgia — 2 August 1863
• Pvt James Terrell, 6th Florida Infantry Battalion — August–December 1863

• 1st Lt Tully McCrea, 1st U.S. Artillery — 5 February 1864

• Praising the 40th Massachusetts Mounted Infantry — 18 February 1864

• Article for Chelsea Telegraph and Pioneer on Gainesville attack — 19 February 1864

• Lt Nicholas De Graff, 115th New York — 20 February 1864

• Cpl Henry Shackelford, 19th Georgia — 20 February 1864

• Capt Winston Stephens, 2nd FL Cavalry — 11 February 1864
• Capt Winston Stephens, 2nd FL Cavalry — 21 February 1864
• Capt Winston Stephens, 2nd FL Cavalry — 27 February 1864
• Journal entry of Octavia Stephens, wife of Capt Stephens — 15 March 1864

• Pvt James Jordan, 27th Georgia — 21 February 1864

• 2nd Lt Stinson Freeman, 32nd Georgia — 21 February 1864

• Boston Herald article on 40th Massachusetts Mounted Infantry — 22 February 1864

• LtCol James Hall, 1st New York — 23 February 1864

• A. Heichhold, Surgeon, 8th U.S.C.T. — 23 February 1864

• Pvt Carroll Kingsley, 7th Connecticut — 24 February 1864

• Article written by M. for the Boston Herald — 24–26 February 1864

• 2nd Lt Hugh Barclay, 23rd Georgia — 25 February 1864

• Capt James Grace, 54th Massachusetts — 25 February 1864

• Unidentified Civilian with the Union Army — 26 February 1864

• 1st Lt Oliver Norton, 8th U.S.C.T. — 29 February 1864

• Letters printed in the Boston Journal — 29 February 1864

• Article on 40th Massachusetts Mounted Infantry in Boston Journal — 29 February 1864

• Pvt. William Woodlin, 8th USCT, 1-29 February

• Lt George Eddy, 3rd Rhode Island Artillery — 1 March 1864

• First Article from Boston Herald — 1 March 1864

• Second Article from Boston Herald — 1 March 1864

• Article from Boston Journal — 1 March 1864

• 1st Lt Oliver Norton, 8th U.S.C.T. — 1 March 1864

• First article from Boston Journal Report of the Battle of Olustee — 2 March 1864

• Second article from Boston Journal on Battle of Olustee — 2 March 1864

• Article in Boston Journal — 2 March 1864

• Boston Journal article on "death" of Major Bogle, 1st North Carolina — 2 March 1864
  
• The Further Adventures of Major Archibald Bogle

• A. Clement, Independent Battalion Massachusetts Cavalry — 3 March 1864

• Boston Journal article on death of Capt Jones, 1st North Carolina — 4 March 1864

• Boston Journal article on 7th New Hampshire — 4 March 1864

• Capt Robert Newell, 54th Massachusetts — 9 March 1864

• 1st Lt Oliver Norton, 8th U.S.C.T. — 9 March 1864

• Boston Journal article — 10 March 1864

• G.E.S., 54th Massachusetts — 10 March 1864

• Daniel Stringer, 32nd Georgia — 12 March 1864

• E.D.W., 54th Massachusetts — 13 March 1864

• Article written by R. for the Worcester Aegis and Transcript on the First North Carolina — 14 March 1864

• Article from Boston Herald on Jacksonville defense — 18 March 1864

• SgtMajor Rufus Jones, 8th U.S.C.T. — 24 March 1864

• Article in Chelsea Telegraph and Pioneer on serving in Florida — 26 March 1864

• Article in Chelsea Telegraph and Pioneer on the death of John Lemont — 26 March 1864

• Pvt James Flynn, 7th New Hampshire — 17 October 1861-30 March 1864

• SgtMajor Rufus Jones, 8th U.S.C.T. — 14 April 1864

• 1st Lt Oliver Norton, 8th U.S.C.T. — 14 April 1864

• Pvt Edmond H. Jones, 64th Georgia — 21 October 1863–31 July 1864

• Letter from Capt S. Elder, 1st U.S. Artillery – 3 May 1864
• Soldier, 55th Massachusetts— 21 May 1864

• Rufus (?), 7th U.S.C.T. — 28 May 1864

• Sgt(?), 55th Massachusetts— 29 May 1864

• T.R. Rockhold, 3rd U.S.C.T. — 29 May 1864

• H.I.W., 54th Massachusetts — 8 June 1864

• Fort Green, 54th Massachusetts — 21 August 1864

• W.B. Johnson, 3rd U.S.C.T. — 22 June 1865

• Capt Loomis L. Langdon, 1st U.S. Artillery — 1873 and 1876

• Excerpt from the book The Black Phalanx — 1887

• Published newspaper letter from Col Duncan L. Clinch, Jr., 4th Georgia Cavalry — 1876–1890?
• Excerpt from the book A History of The First Regiment of Massachusetts Cavalry Volunteers — 1891

• Letter Recounting the death of Major Pickens Bird, 6th Florida Infantry Battalion — 2 April 1892

• Excerpt from the book The Seventh Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion — 1896

• Excerpt from the Reminiscences of Capt William Penniman, 4th Georgia Cavalry — ca. 1901

• How I Was Captured - by William H. Trimmer, Abell's Artillery — date unknown.

• Reminiscences of the Battle of Olustee, by Lawrence Jackson, Company C, 2nd Florida Cavalry — 17 January 1929

• James M. Dancy's, Abell's Artillery, Memoirs of the War in Florida — 30 June 1933