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Letters from Port Royal: Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) — John Shaqi

Letters from Port Royal: Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)

History

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

The extracts have been arranged in chronological order, except in a
few cases where chronology has seemed less important than
subject-matter. They tell a complete story, the greater part of which
falls within the period of the Civil War. They give a vivid notion of
the life from the midst of which they were written; of the flat,
marsh-riddled country, in which few Northerners saw any lasting charm;
of the untidy, down-at-the-heels plantations; of the "people," wards
of the nation, childish, irritating, endlessly amusing; of the daily
toil of Northern men in managing farms and of Northern women in
managing households under Southern and war-time conditions; of the
universal preoccupation with negro needs; of the friendly interchange
of primitive hospitality; of the underlying sense in the writers'
minds of romantic contrast between their own to-day and the yesterday
of the planters,--or a possible to-morrow of the planters. It is not
with matters military or political that these letters deal. They
record the day to day experiences of the housekeeper, the teacher, the
superintendent of labor, and the landowner. For this reason they form
a new contribution to the history of the Port Royal Experiment.




[Illustration: THE SEA ISLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA.]




KEY TO MAP OF THE SEA ISLANDS OF
SOUTH CAROLINA


PLANTATIONS.

  Cherry Hill (T. A. Coffin)         16
  Coffin's Point (T. A. Coffin)      12
  Corner (J. B. Fripp)                5
  Eustis                              2
  Alvirah Fripp (Hope Place)         18
  Edgar Fripp                        20
  Hamilton Fripp                     10
  J. B. Fripp (Corner)                5
  Capt. John Fripp (Homestead)        8
  Capt. Oliver Fripp                 22
  Thomas B. Fripp                     9
  Fripp Point                        11
  Frogmore (T. A. Coffin)            19
  Rev. Robert Fuller ("R.'s")         4
  Hope Place (Alvirah Fripp)         18
  Dr. Jenkins                        21
  Mary Jenkins                       28
  Martha E. McTureous                14
  James McTureous                    15
  Mulberry Hill (John Fripp)         17
  The Oaks (Pope)                     3
  Oakland                             6
  Pine Grove (Fripp)                 13
  Pope (The Oaks)                     3
  "R.'s" (Fuller)                     4
  Smith                               1
  Dr. White                          27
BRICK CHURCH (Baptist)               24
WHITE CHURCH (Episcopal)             23
ST. HELENA VILLAGE                    7
FORT WALKER                          26
FORT BEAUREGARD                      25
CAMP OF THE FIRST SOUTH CAROLINA
  VOLUNTEERS (COLONEL HIGGINSON)      1




LETTERS FROM PORT ROYAL

1862

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Letters from Port Royal: Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)

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