[Footnote 131: A noticeable thing about the children of slaves was that they had no games.] [Footnote 132: In the words of the order the command of the Department was taken from Hunter and given to Gillmore "temporarily."] [Footnote 133: Rhodes' _History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850_, vol. iv, p. 332.] [Footnote 134: Colonel Higginson had been sent up the South Edisto River, to cut the railroad at Jacksonboro.] [Footnote 135: Whither the wounded had been brought.] [Footnote 136: Edward N. Hallowell and Garth Wilkinson James, Major and Adjutant of the Fifty-Fourth.] [Footnote 137: For the North.] [Footnote 138: A few weeks later (July 15) General Saxton authorized the general superintendents to appoint plantation commissions, or courts for the administration of justice. The people eligible for these commissions were Government plantation superintendents and Mr. Philbrick's six plantation superintendents, and they were instructed "that in cases where immediate arrest is in their opinion necessary, the plantation superintendents, and the persons above named, are hereby authorized themselves to make arrests of civilians upon the plantations. But they must exercise this power with great discretion, and will be held responsible for any abuse of it."] [Footnote 139: Colonel W. W. H. Davis was in command of the post at Beaufort during Saxton's temporary absence.] [Footnote 140: R. Soule, Jr., now one of Mr. Philbrick's superintendents, who, upon the departure of the Philbricks, had come to live at Coffin's Point.] [Footnote 141: The rebel masters had told their slaves that the Yankees intended to sell them "South,"--that is, to Cuba or the Gulf.] [Footnote 142: See note, p. 201.] [Footnote 143: On board the _Kingfisher_.] [Footnote 144: A Pennsylvanian, General Superintendent for St. Helena and Ladies Islands, since Richard Soule had resigned that position.] [Footnote 145: That is, gathered.] [Footnote 146: Admiral Dupont's flag-ship.] [Footnote 147: The Fifty-Fifth Massachusetts Volunteers (colored), which was in camp at Port Royal.] [Footnote 148: Meaning, of course, plantations belonging to the Government.] [Footnote 149: The "Mary Jenkins" place.] [Footnote 150: Two hundred and sixty-five thousand pounds was "about as much as there was raised in the whole Department" in 1862.] [Footnote 151: See p. 230.]