Higginson had been sent up the South Edisto
River, to cut the railroad at Jacksonboro.]

[Footnote 135: Whither the wounded had been brought.]

[Footnote 136: Edward N. Hallowell and Garth Wilkinson James, Major
and Adjutant of the Fifty-Fourth.]

[Footnote 137: For the North.]

[Footnote 138: A few weeks later (July 15) General Saxton authorized
the general superintendents to appoint plantation commissions, or
courts for the administration of justice. The people eligible for
these commissions were Government plantation superintendents and Mr.
Philbrick's six plantation superintendents, and they were instructed
"that in cases where immediate arrest is in their opinion necessary,
the plantation superintendents, and the persons above named, are
hereby authorized themselves to make arrests of civilians upon the
plantations. But they must exercise this power with great discretion,
and will be held responsible for any abuse of it."]

[Footnote 139: Colonel W. W. H. Davis was in command of the post at
Beaufort during Saxton's temporary absence.]

[Footnote 140: R. Soule, Jr., now one of Mr. Philbrick's
superintendents, who, upon the departure of the Philbricks, had come
to live at Coffin's Point.]

[Footnote 141: The rebel masters had told their slaves that the
Yankees intended to sell them "South,"--that is, to Cuba or the Gulf.]

[Footnote 142: See note, p. 201.]

[Footnote 143: On board the _Kingfisher_.]

[Footnote 144: A Pennsylvanian, General Superintendent for St. Helena
and Ladies Islands, since Richard Soule had resigned that position.]

[Footnote 145: That is, gathered.]

[Footnote 146: Admiral Dupont's flag-ship.]

[Footnote 147: The Fifty-Fifth Massachusetts Volunteers (colored),
which was in camp at Port Royal.]

[Footnote 148: Meaning, of course, plantations belonging to the
Government.]

[Footnote 149: The "Mary Jenkins" place.]

[Footnote 150: Two hundred and sixty-five thousand pounds was "about
as much as there was raised in the whole Department" in 1862.]

[Footnote 151: See p. 230.]

[Footnote 152: A letter dated December 28, 1863, inclosing $100 for
the relief of families of freedmen. The letter gives figures that
prove the success of the free labor experiment on Mr. Philbrick's
plantations, and concludes as follows: "I mention these things to show
how easy it is to render the negroes a self-supporting and
wealth-producing class with proper management; and I, at the same
time, full