[134] Colonel Higginson had been sent up the South Edisto River, to cut the railroad at Jacksonboro.
[135] Whither the wounded had been brought.
[136] Edward N. Hallowell and Garth Wilkinson James, Major and Adjutant of the Fifty-Fourth.
[137] For the North.
[138] A few weeks later (July 15) General Saxton authorized the general superintendents to appoint plantation commissions, or courts for the administration of justice. The people eligible for these commissions were Government plantation superintendents and Mr. Philbrick's six plantation superintendents, and they were instructed "that in cases where immediate arrest is in their opinion necessary, the plantation superintendents, and the persons above named, are hereby authorized themselves to make arrests of civilians upon the plantations. But they must exercise this power with great discretion, and will be held responsible for any abuse of it."
[139] Colonel W. W. H. Davis was in command of the post at Beaufort during Saxton's temporary absence.
[140] R. Soule, Jr., now one of Mr. Philbrick's superintendents, who, upon the departure of the Philbricks, had come to live at Coffin's Point.
[141] The rebel masters had told their slaves that the Yankees intended to sell them "South,"—that is, to Cuba or the Gulf.
[143] On board the Kingfisher.