[Footnote 75: After Mitchel's death, Brannan again acted as head of the Department, till General Hunter's return in January, 1863.] [Footnote 76: To the Dr. Jenkins plantation.] [Footnote 77: Stone or seed-cotton is unginned cotton.] [Footnote 78: Of course on almost all the plantations no taxes had been paid, so that the Government was at liberty to sell them at auction.] [Footnote 79: That is, of drawing their own rations.] [Footnote 80: General Hunter did not actually arrive until January. See note 1, [now Footnote 75] p. 108.] [Footnote 81: The $200,000 (mentioned on page 110) received by the Government for the crop of 1861.] [Footnote 82: Saxton.] [Footnote 83: This plan of operations was adopted by General Saxton.] [Footnote 84: Dr. LeBaron Russell, of the Committee on Teachers of the Educational Commission.] [Footnote 85: Taking the plantations as a whole, the Government lost in 1862 the whole $200,000 which it had cleared from the planters' big cotton crop of 1861.] [Footnote 86: On Port Royal Island "whole fields of corn, fifty acres in extent, have been stripped of every ear before hard enough to be stored."] [Footnote 87: Henry W. Halleck, since July 11 General-in-Chief of the Army, with headquarters at Washington.] [Footnote 88: Another young Harvard graduate, cousin of H. W., come to teach the two Fripp schools.] [Footnote 89: Mr. Philbrick had changed his residence to the Oaks.] [Footnote 90: An institution situated in Beaufort, managed by the New York Commission.] [Footnote 91: Of Corporal Sutton Colonel Higginson says: "If not in all respects the ablest, he was the wisest man in our ranks. As large, as powerful, and as black as our good-looking Color-sergeant, but more heavily built and with less personal beauty, he had a more massive brain and a far more meditative and systematic intellect. Not yet grounded even in the spelling-book, his modes of thought were nevertheless strong, lucid, and accurate; and he yearned and pined for intellectual companionship beyond all ignorant men whom I have ever met. I believe that he would have talked all day and all night, for days together, to any officer who could instruct him, until his companion, at least, fell asleep exhausted. His comprehension of the whole problem of slavery was more thorough and far-reaching than that of any Abolitionist, so far as its social and military aspects went; in that direction I could teach him nothing, and he taught me much. But it was his methods of thought which always impressed me chiefly; superficial brilliancy he left to others, and grasped at the solid truth." (_Army Life in a Black Regiment_, p. 62.)] [Footnote 92: Mr. Philbrick describes the feast: "I walked about for a half hour watching the carving, which was done mostly with _axes_, and the eager pressing of the hungry crowds about the rough board tables, by which each ox was surrounded. The meat didn't look very inviting."]