Written from the Sea islands of South Carolina.
[Diary] August 28.
The chaplain at St. Augustine’s has written to General Saxton that the soldiers there sympathize more with “Secesh” than with the North.
The President is out with a colonization scheme. They say McClellan is to be relieved.
Ellen and I drove Jimsebub to Oaklands and we crossed to Palawana, being bogged — that is, sitting in the boat and being pushed over the soft, slippery mud by a man behind the “dug-out.”
