is like a
panther's; I never saw such a tread. No anti-slavery novel has
described a man of such marked ability. He makes Toussaint perfectly
intelligible; and if there should ever be a black monarchy in South
Carolina, he will be its king." (_Army Life in a Black Regiment_, pp.
57, 58.)]

[Footnote 71: "These heaps are, _lucus a non_, called holes." C. P.
W.]

[Footnote 72: The First South Carolina Volunteers (colored), Thomas
Wentworth Higginson, colonel.]

[Footnote 73: Usually referred to as the "Hunter Regiment."]

[Footnote 74: A town very near the extreme southern point of the
Georgia coast.]

[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 medita