Finding that the operations against Charleston could not go forward immediately, Foster returned to North Carolina within a few days after his arrival in the Department of the South. His troops remained, so restive under Hunter's command that Foster's whole staff was presently sent back to North Carolina for alleged insubordination.
[115] This report turned out to be a mistake.
[116] That is, the revenue from the cotton on certain plantations was used for these purposes. A plantation thus devoted to the educational needs of the people was called a School Farm.
[117] To capture Jacksonville, on the St. John's River, Florida.
[118] Of the Second South Carolina Volunteers (colored).
[119] The bracket is used for unimportant dates which are out of their chronological place.
[121] Two of the thirteen were merely leased.
[122] H. W., commenting more mildly, says (Mar. 18): "He certainly has not a clear idea of what the superintendents and teachers are doing, and unfortunately classes them as in opposition to himself,—as preferring the agricultural to the military department. This I do not think is the case, but they most of them feel his want of wisdom in dealing with the subject, which has made his own especial object as well as theirs harder to accomplish."
[123] A short-lived newspaper published in the Department.