[46] As a result of Lincoln's proclamation of May 19 (see p. [50] n.), the regiment, all but one company, was disbanded in August.
[47] This burying-place was "an unfenced quarter of an acre of perfectly wild, tangled woodland in the midst of the cotton-field, halfway between here [the 'white house'] and the quarters. Nothing ever marks the graves, but the place is entirely devoted to them."
[From a letter of H. W.'s, June 5, '62.]
[48] Saxton's first general order, announcing his arrival, is dated June 28.
[49] E. L. Pierce had changed his headquarters from "Pope's."
[50] From the first the anti-slavery Northerners at Port Royal had had no hesitation in telling their employees that they were freemen. Indeed, they had no choice but to do so, the tadpoles on these islands, as Mr. Philbrick said, having "virtually shed their tails in course of nature already."
[51] Pierce's second report to Secretary Chase on the Sea Islands, dated June 2, 1862.
[52] "We have to spend more than half our time," writes Mr. Philbrick in September, "getting our limited supplies."
[53] Richard Soule, Jr., was General Superintendent of St. Helena and Ladies Islands, and was living at Edgar Fripp's plantation.
[54] The first of many references to the frequent lack of sympathy shown by army officers.