"]

[Footnote 53: Richard Soule, Jr., was General Superintendent of St.
Helena and Ladies Islands, and was living at Edgar Fripp's
plantation.]

[Footnote 54: The first of many references to the frequent lack of
sympathy shown by army officers.]

[Footnote 55: That is, the account had been taken before he came
South.]

[Footnote 56: See page 37.]

[Footnote 57: The term "Hunting Island" was applied to several of the
outside islands collectively.]

[Footnote 58: Thomas Astor Coffin, of Coffin's Point.]

[Footnote 59: The chief "hindrance" was, of course, the late date at
which work on the cotton crop had been started; the land should have
been prepared in February, and the planting begun at the end of
March.]

[Footnote 60: The preliminary proclamation of emancipation, dated
September 22, 1862.]

[Footnote 61: It will be seen that this excellent idea was not adopted
by the authorities.]

[Footnote 62: Edward W. Hooper served on Saxton's staff, with the rank
of Captain.]

[Footnote 63: He came with authority to raise negro troops.]

[Footnote 64: See p. 58.]

[Footnote 65: As Saxton's agent to collect and ship the cotton crop.
See p. 99.]

[Footnote 66: The superintendents of the Second Division of the Sea
Islands.]

[Footnote 67: The negroes had broken the cotton-gins by way of putting
their slavery more completely behind them.]

[Footnote 68: Again the cotton-agent.]

[Footnote 69: Evidently the offer of a captaincy.]

[Footnote 70: Of Prince Rivers, who became color-sergeant and
provost-sergeant in the First South Carolina Volunteers, Thomas
Wentworth Higginson, its colonel, writes: "There is not a white
officer in this regiment who has more administrative ability, or more
absolute authority over the men; they do not love him, but his mere
presence has controlling power over them. He writes well enough to
prepare for me a daily report of his duties in the camp; if his
education reached a higher point, I see no reason why he should not
command the Army of the Potomac. He is jet-black, or rather, I should
say, _wine-black_; his complexion, like that of others of my darkest
men, having a sort of rich, clear depth, without a trace of sootiness,
and to my eye very handsome. His features are tolerably regular, and
full of command, and his figure superior to that of any of our white
officers, being six feet high, perfectly proportioned, and of
apparently inexhaustible strength and activity. His gait