[65] As Saxton's agent to collect and ship the cotton crop. See p. [99].
[66] The superintendents of the Second Division of the Sea Islands.
[67] The negroes had broken the cotton-gins by way of putting their slavery more completely behind them.
[68] Again the cotton-agent.
[69] Evidently the offer of a captaincy.
[70] Of Prince Rivers, who became color-sergeant and provost-sergeant in the First South Carolina Volunteers, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, its colonel, writes: "There is not a white officer in this regiment who has more administrative ability, or more absolute authority over the men; they do not love him, but his mere presence has controlling power over them. He writes well enough to prepare for me a daily report of his duties in the camp; if his education reached a higher point, I see no reason why he should not command the Army of the Potomac. He is jet-black, or rather, I should say, wine-black; his complexion, like that of others of my darkest men, having a sort of rich, clear depth, without a trace of sootiness, and to my eye very handsome. His features are tolerably regular, and full of command, and his figure superior to that of any of our white officers, being six feet high, perfectly proportioned, and of apparently inexhaustible strength and activity. His gait is like a panther's; I never saw such a tread. No anti-slavery novel has described a man of such marked ability. He makes Toussaint perfectly intelligible; and if there should ever be a black monarchy in South Carolina, he will be its king." (Army Life in a Black Regiment, pp. 57, 58.)
[71] "These heaps are, lucus a non, called holes." C. P. W.
[72] The First South Carolina Volunteers (colored), Thomas Wentworth Higginson, colonel.
[73] Usually referred to as the "Hunter Regiment."
[74] A town very near the extreme southern point of the Georgia coast.