[Footnote 174: "The First South," as the First South Carolina Volunteers was always called by the negroes, had in the spring been enrolled among the United States Colored Troops as the Thirty-Third Regiment.] [Footnote 175: See p. 187.] [Footnote 176: Both in the Fifty-Fifth Massachusetts Volunteers (colored).] [Footnote 177: The battle of Honey Hill (near Grahamville), fought November 30.] [Footnote 178: Of the Fifty-Fifth Massachusetts.] [Footnote 179: F. H. was to take charge of Coffin's Point on C. P. W.'s leaving permanently for home a few weeks later. In connection with Mr. Philbrick's words about him and in preparation for his own letters, it is worth while to record something he had written in the autumn: Oct. 7. St. Helena. I am slowly recovering from my three weeks' sickness,--more buoyant and hopeful than ever before. I seem to have a new birth, with new aspirations, and new views--particularly in regard to life and its duties and prospects among the freed people of South Carolina. If _God_ is not in it, then I am laboring under hallucination.] [Footnote 180: The crop of 1864 had cost Mr. Philbrick about $1.00 a pound, and he thought it quite possible that the crop of 1865 might not fetch more than that in the market. It will be seen that his fears were more than justified.] [Footnote 181: General Oliver O. Howard.] [Footnote 182: The only thoroughfare by land from Beaufort to Charleston. At Port Royal Ferry it crosses the Coosaw.] [Footnote 183: F. H.] [Footnote 184: "Yellow cotton" was cotton which for any reason had been stained in the pod.] [Footnote 185: Concerning this horse-buying fever Mr. Philbrick has elsewhere an amusing anecdote: [Jan. 8.] The latest case of destitution I have heard of was the case of old Robert at the Oaks, cow-minder,--you remember him. He and old Scylla applied to Mr. Tomlinson for rations, pleading utter poverty. It turned out next day that Robert and Scylla's husband were in treaty for Mr. Fairfield's horse, at the rate of $350! They didn't allege _inability_ to pay the price, but thought they would look around and see if they couldn't get one cheaper. I daresay it will end by their buying it.] [Footnote 186: Fuller, of Fuller Place, who had succeeded in keeping with him on a plantation elsewhere the negroes he had induced to accompany him when the war broke out.] [Footnote 187: In Europe.] [Footnote 188: By President Johnson's instructions.] [Footnote 189: The original owners of the Sea Island plantations were subsequently reimbursed by Congress for their loss (minors receiving again their actual land); but inasmuch as the sums paid them did not include the value of their slaves, they considered the payment inadequate.] [Footnote 190: New York _Nation_, November 30, 1865.] [Footnote 191: The cotton when ginned should have weighed between one third and one quarter as much as it weighed before ginning. See p. 236.]