one of Boston, provided that Mr.
Philbrick, in whose name the land should be bought and who should have
complete responsibility for managing it, should, after paying the
subscribers six per cent. interest, receive one fourth of the net
profits. Mr. Philbrick was to be liable for losses and without the
right to call for further contribution; on the other hand, no
subscription was to be withdrawn unless he ceased to superintend the
enterprise. On his closing the business, the net proceeds were to be
divided _pro rata_.]

[Footnote 99: Joe having gone back to his trade of carpenter, the
domestic force now included a boy and a girl (daughter of Abel and
sister of Hester), marvelously ignorant, even for a Sea Island
field-hand. Uncle Sam, Robert's father, was acting as cook.]

[Footnote 100: A boy lately added to the corps of house-servants at
Coffin's Point.]

[Footnote 101: From unwillingness to see the land owned by any one but
negroes.]

[Footnote 102: A detachment from the Eighteenth Army Corps, under
Major-General John G. Foster, had come to help in the operations
against Charleston.]

[Footnote 103: The new postmaster for Beaufort.]

[Footnote 104: A cousin in the 24th Massachusetts, which had come to
Land's End as part of the "North Carolina army."]

[Footnote 105: For lumber up the St. Mary's River, which separates
Georgia from Florida.]

[Footnote 106: See p. 162.]

[Footnote 107: The history of the Department had been defined as "a
military picnic."]

[Footnote 108: A paper published at Beaufort.]

[Footnote 109: Haunt of the drum-fish.]

[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
imm