Letters from Port Royal: Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)
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Letters from Port Royal: Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)
African Americans -- South Carolina; Beaufort (S.C.) -- History; South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
[Footnote 110: The War Department ordered the sales to go forward,
leaving the restrictions to be arranged by Hunter, Saxton, and the
Commissioners in charge. See p. 165.]
[Footnote 111: Brigadier-General Edward E. Potter, Foster's Chief of
Staff.]
[Footnote 112: That is, hoed over again and new furrows made for the
next crop.]
[Footnote 113: Brigadier-General Thomas G. Stevenson, originally
colonel of the Twenty-Fourth Massachusetts, was arrested by General
Hunter and soon after released.]
[Footnote 114: The immediate cause of this trouble was a disagreement
about the extent of Hunter's authority over Foster and his command
while they were in the Department of the South, but the underlying
difficulty was that Foster and his officers distrusted Hunter as an
anti-slavery zealot.
Finding that the operations against Charleston could not go forward
immediately, Foster returned to North Carolina within a few days after
his arrival in the Department of the South. His troops remained, so
restive under Hunter's command that Foster's whole staff was presently
sent back to North Carolina for alleged insubordination.]
[Footnote 115: This report turned out to be a mistake.]
[Footnote 116: That is, the revenue from the cotton on certain
plantations was used for these purposes. A plantation thus devoted to
the educational needs of the people was called a School Farm.]
[Footnote 117: To capture Jacksonville, on the St. John's River,
Florida.]
[Footnote 118: Of the Second South Carolina Volunteers (colored).]
[Footnote 119: The bracket is used for unimportant dates which are out
of their chronological place.]
[Footnote 120: See p. 147.]
[Footnote 121: Two of the thirteen were merely leased.]
[Footnote 122: H. W., commenting more mildly, says (Mar. 18): "He
certainly has not a clear idea of what the superintendents and
teachers are doing, and unfortunately classes them as in opposition to
himself,--as preferring the agricultural to the military department.
This I do not think is the case, but they most of them feel his want
of wisdom in dealing with the subject, which has made his own especial
object as well as theirs harder to accomplish."]
[Footnote 123: A short-lived newspaper published in the Department.]
[Footnote 124: H. W. describes another service that was broken up by
this fear of the draft: "[May 2.] At church yesterday a squad of
soldiers with their officer came from Land's End to the service, when
a general stampede took place among the men, and women too, jumping
from the windows and one man even from the gallery into the midst of
the congregation."]
[Footnote 125: The boy.]
[Footnote 126: Captain J. E. Bryant, of the Eighth Maine.]
[Footnote 127: The Second South Carolina Volunteers (colored).]
[Footnote 128: Of the _Kingfisher_, the blockader.]
[Footnote 129: To be examined, adjudged not "able-bodied," and given
exemption-papers.]
[Footnote 130: Second South Carolina Volunteers.]
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