. Young folk's history of the war for the union . ere slaves,mostly employed on the cotton and rice plantations. As soonas the Union troops had obtained a footing, they began to flockto the camps, men, women, and children, with their little prop-erty tied up in bundles, inquir-ing for Massa Bobolition,whom they had heard was com-ing to free them. Many beggedearnestly to be taken on boardthe ships, and they seemed tothink it a great hardship whenthey were refused. But in timethey became reconciled to theirlot, and made themselves veryuseful, going to their work sing-ing cheerily, Ole massa tink
. Young folk's history of the war for the union . ere slaves,mostly employed on the cotton and rice plantations. As soonas the Union troops had obtained a footing, they began to flockto the camps, men, women, and children, with their little prop-erty tied up in bundles, inquir-ing for Massa Bobolition,whom they had heard was com-ing to free them. Many beggedearnestly to be taken on boardthe ships, and they seemed tothink it a great hardship whenthey were refused. But in timethey became reconciled to theirlot, and made themselves veryuseful, going to their work sing-ing cheerily, Ole massa tink it day ob doom,And we ob jubilee. The taking of the forts atPort Royal led to the occupa-tion before the end of the year of Beaufort and most of thechain of coast islands along South Carolina and Georgia. Oneof the most important captures was that of Big Tybee Island,at the mouth of the Savannah Eiver, shown in the map on page154. It was defended by a martello tower of solid masonry,built there during the last war against Great Britain,* and by. Martello Tower on Tybee Island. * Martello towers were first built during the reign of the EmperorCharles v., in the islands of Sardinia and Corsica, as a defence againstpirates. They were generally round, and were defended by one large gunon the top, so mounted that it could be fired in all directions. TheBritish, who had seen them in Corsica, built some of them along thecoast of England when Bonapartes invasion was expected; and the oneon Tybee Island was constructed like them. 156 DEEDS OF THE NAVT. [1861. a battery at its base. The enemy gave it up without a struggle,and the flag of the Union, the first in Georgia, was hoisted overthe tower. The possession of this island shut the port ofSavannah against blockade-runners, and gave the Union trooj)sa point from which to attack Fort Pulaski, on an island a littlefurther up the river. In December an attempt was made to close Charleston Har-bor by sinking a fleet of sixteen old vessels,
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