[Footnote 180: The crop of 1864 had cost Mr. Philbrick about $1.00 a
pound, and he thought it quite possible that the crop of 1865 might
not fetch more than that in the market. It will be seen that his fears
were more than justified.]
[Footnote 181: General Oliver O. Howard.]
[Footnote 182: The only thoroughfare by land from Beaufort to
Charleston. At Port Royal Ferry it crosses the Coosaw.]
[Footnote 183: F. H.]
[Footnote 184: "Yellow cotton" was cotton which for any reason had
been stained in the pod.]
[Footnote 185: Concerning this horse-buying fever Mr. Philbrick has
elsewhere an amusing anecdote:
[Jan. 8.] The latest case of destitution I have heard of was the case
of old Robert at the Oaks, cow-minder,--you remember him. He and old
Scylla applied to Mr. Tomlinson for rations, pleading utter poverty.
It turned out next day that Robert and Scylla's husband were in treaty
for Mr. Fairfield's horse, at the rate of $350! They didn't allege
_inability_ to pay the price, but thought they would look around and
see if they couldn't get one cheaper. I daresay it will end by their
buying it.]
[Footnote 186: Fuller, of Fuller Place, who had succeeded in keeping
with him on a plantation elsewhere the negroes he had induced to
accompany him when the war broke out.]
[Footnote 187: In Europe.]
[Footnote 188: By President Johnson's instructions.]
[Footnote 189: The original owners of the Sea Island plantations were
subsequently reimbursed by Congress for their loss (minors receiving
again their actual land); but inasmuch as the sums paid them did not
include the value of their slaves, they considered the payment
inadequate.]
[Footnote 190: New York _Nation_, November 30, 1865.]
[Footnote 191: The cotton when ginned should have weighed between one
third and one quarter as much as it weighed before ginning. See p.
236.]
[Footnote 192: In one of his letters to the _Nation_ (December 14),
Dennett quotes Richard Soule as saying that he thought the past four
years had encouraged and confirmed the faults of the negro.
"Demoralized on the negro question," therefore, seems to mean, not
that Richard Soule and F. H. were finding the negro worse than they
had thought him, but that they considered that present conditions were
rapidly making him worse.]
[Footnote 193: General Saxton was Assistant Commissioner for South
Carolina under the Freedmen's Bureau.]
[Footnote 194: Reuben Tomlinson had been made State Superintendent of
Education.]
[Footnote 195: The Union Store was finished, stocked, and operated,
but its life was brief. From the first, its vitality was sapped by the
claim of the stockholders to unlimited credit; then a dishonest
treasurer struck the death-blow.]
[Footnote 196: See p. 312.]
[Footnote 197: This was Grant's famous "car-window" report, in which
he stated his belief that "the mass of thieving men at the South
accept the situation in good faith."]
[Footnote 198: Mr. Waters bought Cherry Hill and lived there for a
short time.]
[Footnote 199: "Corner" was the Captain John Fripp place.]
[Footnote 200: At the auction referred to, the Government offered for
sale the plantations which had been reserved for the support of
schools.]
[Footnote 201: A negro who worked a plantation "on shares" was
independent of the owner, merely paying a rent in cotton.]
[Footnote 202: Afterwards used as the nucleus of _Slave Songs of the
United States_.]
[Footnote 203: Before the war.]
[Footnote 204: Rose had been living with H. W. in the North, and was
now at Port Royal with her, also on a visit.]
[Footnote 205: General Bennett was managing Coffin's for the owner,
who had bought it of Mr. Philbrick.]