[124] H. W. describes another service that was broken up by this fear of the draft: "[May 2.] At church yesterday a squad of soldiers with their officer came from Land's End to the service, when a general stampede took place among the men, and women too, jumping from the windows and one man even from the gallery into the midst of the congregation."

[125] The boy.

[126] Captain J. E. Bryant, of the Eighth Maine.

[127] The Second South Carolina Volunteers (colored).

[128] Of the Kingfisher, the blockader.

[129] To be examined, adjudged not "able-bodied," and given exemption-papers.

[130] Second South Carolina Volunteers.

[131] A noticeable thing about the children of slaves was that they had no games.

[132] In the words of the order the command of the Department was taken from Hunter and given to Gillmore "temporarily."

[133] Rhodes' History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850, vol. iv, p. 332.