[36] By the rebels.
[37] He had already had sent down from the North a quantity of articles to sell to the negroes.
[38] Brigadier-General Isaac I. Stevens, then at Beaufort, commanding the Second Division.
[39] The "Brick Church" was a Baptist Church which had always been used by both blacks and whites. Less than a mile away stood the "White Church," Episcopalian,—closed since the flight of the planters.
[40] Issued May 9, and on May 19, nullified by President Lincoln.
[41] South Carolina corn is white flint corn.
[42] The cotton-agent who had been at Coffin's Point.
[43] The Government not only had made no definite promise of payment, but it was of course unable to bring to bear on the negroes any compulsion of any sort. They worked or not, as they liked, and when they liked.
[44] The old system of labor—the system in force in slavery times—had been the "gang system," the laborers working all together, so that no one had continuous responsibility for any one piece of land.
[45] For Coffin's Point.