[Footnote 2: The name Port Royal, in ante-bellum days used only of the island on which Beaufort is situated and of the entrance to the Beaufort River, was given by the United States Government to the military post and the harbor at Hilton Head, and to the post-office there. Hence the Sea Island district came to be referred to in the North as "Port Royal."] [Footnote 3: Collector Barney of the Port of New York.] [Footnote 4: Edward L. Pierce (see Introduction).] [Footnote 5: Richard Soule, Jr.] [Footnote 6: Edward W. Hooper, afterwards for many years Treasurer of Harvard College.] [Footnote 7: G. is W. C. G. of these letters.] [Footnote 8: John M. Forbes, who had hired a house at Beaufort for a few months.] [Footnote 9: Rev. Mansfield French had already spent some weeks at Port Royal.] [Footnote 10: Thrown up by the island planters after the outbreak of the war.] [Footnote 11: Thomas A. Coffin's large plantation at the eastern end of St. Helena Island.] [Footnote 12: F. A. Eustis of Milton, who was part owner of the plantation in question.] [Footnote 13: Mr. Philbrick had gone down to Hilton Head again to see about his luggage.] [Footnote 14: See page v.] [Footnote 15: Pine Grove and Fripp Point.] [Footnote 16: The drivers, negroes holding a position next below the white overseers, were found by the Northerners still keeping the keys and trying to exert their authority.] [Footnote 17: For clothing their masters had been in the habit of giving them material for two suits a year; a pair of blankets every few years made up the sum of gratuities.] [Footnote 18: Mrs. Philbrick.] [Footnote 19: Miss Laura E. Towne of Philadelphia. She never returned to live in the North. The school she started in 1862 is still in existence, under the name of the Penn Normal, Industrial, and Agricultural School.] [Footnote 20: Known as the Smith Plantation.] [Footnote 21: The ferry to Ladies Island, across which ran the road to St. Helena Island and Mr. Philbrick's plantations.] [Footnote 22: The plantation "praise-house," as the negroes' church was called, was often merely "a rather larger and nicer negro hut than the others. Here the master was an exemplary old Baptist Christian, who has left his house full of religious magazines and papers, and built his people quite a nice little house,--the best on this part of the Island." (Letter of W. C. G., April 22, 1862.)] [Footnote 23: Pine Grove was in this respect an exception among the Sea Island plantations.] [Footnote 24: See p. 33.] [Footnote 25: Mrs. Philbrick.]