ediately, Foster returned to North Carolina within a few days after
his arrival in the Department of the South. His troops remained, so
restive under Hunter's command that Foster's whole staff was presently
sent back to North Carolina for alleged insubordination.]

[Footnote 115: This report turned out to be a mistake.]

[Footnote 116: That is, the revenue from the cotton on certain
plantations was used for these purposes. A plantation thus devoted to
the educational needs of the people was called a School Farm.]

[Footnote 117: To capture Jacksonville, on the St. John's River,
Florida.]

[Footnote 118: Of the Second South Carolina Volunteers (colored).]

[Footnote 119: The bracket is used for unimportant dates which are out
of their chronological place.]

[Footnote 120: See p. 147.]

[Footnote 121: Two of the thirteen were merely leased.]

[Footnote 122: H. W., commenting more mildly, says (Mar. 18): "He
certainly has not a clear idea of what the superintendents and
teachers are doing, and unfortunately classes them as in opposition to
himself,--as preferring the agricultural to the military department.
This I do not think is the case, but they most of them feel his want
of wisdom in dealing with the subject, which has made his own especial
object as well as theirs harder to accomplish."]

[Footnote 123: A short-lived newspaper published in the Department.]

[Footnote 124: H. W. describes another service that was broken up by
this fear of the draft: "[May 2.] At church yesterday a squad of
soldiers with their officer came from Land's End to the service, when
a general stampede took place among the men, and women too, jumping
from the windows and one man even from the gallery into the midst of
the congregation."]

[Footnote 125: The boy.]

[Footnote 126: Captain J. E. Bryant, of the Eighth Maine.]

[Footnote 127: The Second South Carolina Volunteers (colored).]

[Footnote 128: Of the _Kingfisher_, the blockader.]

[Footnote 129: To be examined, adjudged not "able-bodied," and given
exemption-papers.]

[Footnote 130: Second South Carolina Volunteers.]

[Footnote 131: A noticeable thing about the children of slaves was
that they had no games.]

[Footnote 132: In the words of the order the command of the Department
was taken from Hunter and given to Gillmore "temporarily."]

[Footnote 133: Rhodes' _History of the United States from the
Compromise of 1850_, vol. iv, p. 332.]

[Footnote 134: Colonel