Report from Major General Truman Seymour to Brigadier General John Wesley Turner Concerning the February 20, 1864, Battle of Olustee, March 25, 1864
The colored troops behaved creditably-the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts and the First North Carolina like veterans. It was not in their conduct that can be found the chief cause of failure, but in the unanticipated yielding of a white regiment from which there was every reason to expect noble service, and at a moment when everything depended upon its firmness.
