THE OLUSTEE CAMPAIGN — FORMIDABLE FEDERAL MOVEMENT—DESIGN TO ESTABLISH A NEW STATE GOVERNMENT—CONCENTRATION OF CONFEDERATE FORCES —CRUSHING DEFEAT OF THE ENEMY — OPERATIONS FOLLOWING THE BATTLE. IN the winter of 1863-64 Florida was an inviting field to Federal aggression. The few Confederate troops left in the State were scattered over the vast extent of territory they gallantly sought to defend, and it appeared that a strong body of Federal soldiers could with little opposition advance into the center of the heart of the State, expel the regularly constituted authorities from the capital, and organize a quasi-State government which should recognize...