Written from the Sea islands of South Carolina.
[Diary] 12th.
There have been a good many able-bodied men living on rations at St. Helena’s village —refugees from Edisto. A few days ago retreat to the woods was cut off by our soldiers and twenty of these men seized from under beds and in various hiding-places and carried off to Fort Pulaski as laborers. This will create dismay, I am afraid; but it seems just, for these men must otherwise be idle and rationed till it is time for the next crop.
