[87] Miss Lydia Ravenel.
[88] It would appear that General Potter made an even less favorable impression at Otranto, in St. James’, Goose Creek, the home of Philip Johnstone Porcher.
“As it was then near midnight we decided to go to bed, and mother said she would go down in the morning and request that a written protection be furnished us, as this had been suggested by the quiet-looking officer, our protector of the afternoon before. Therefore, as early as possible she did so, but General Potter received her very shortly, and only replied, ‘Your husband is in the Rebel army.’ She replied, ‘it was our desire that he should leave us, and I am glad he is not here, for if he had been I suppose he would have been shot.’
“He replied, ‘you talk like a fool when you say that,’ and turned off; when mother said, ‘If that is your opinion, I have the more need of protection’.”
(From “Some War-Time Letters,” by Marion Johnstone (Porcher) Ford, in “Life in the Confederate Army,” p. 113. Neale Publishing Co., N. Y. 1905.)
[89] Wantoot was the original home settlement of the Ravenel family in St. John’s, Berkeley.
[90] Rev. (afterwards Bishop) P. F. Stevens.
[91] Miss Marianne E. Porcher.
[92] Dr. Morton Waring (Chelsea.)
[93] Mrs. Charles J. Snowden.