[Footnote 23: Eaton, Lincoln, Grant and the Freedmen, p. 2.]

[Footnote 23: Eaton, Lincoln, Grant and the Freedmen, p. 19. See also Botume's First Days Amongst the Contrabands. This work vividly portrays conditions among the refugees assembled at points in South Carolina.]

[Footnote 24: Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, p. 15.]

[Footnote 25: Williams, Negro in the Rebellion, pp. 90-98.]

[Footnote 26: Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, VII, pp. 503, 510, 560, 595, 628, 668, 698, 699, 711, 723, 739, 741, 757, 769, 787, 801, 802, 811, 818, 842, 923, 934; VIII, pp. 444, 445, 451, 464, 555, 556, 564, 584, 637, 642, 686, 690, 693, 825.]

[Footnote 27: Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, pp. 34-35.]

[Footnote 28: Ames, From a New England Woman's Diary, passim; and
Pearson, Letters from Port Royal, passim.]

[Footnote 29: Ames, From a New England Woman's Diary in 1865, passim.]

[Footnote 30: Special Report of the United States Commissioner of
Education on the Schools of the District of Columbia, p. 217.]

[Footnote 31: Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, p. 37.]