. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . old. A\ewere surprised one morning to lind the ground white withsnow, and snow-balling was indulged in by the boys,something of very rare occurrence in South Carolina. On the 31st of January, a tleet of transports sailedup into Port Royal Harbor with 10,000 troops on board,under command of General John G. Foster, (our Nashua General Foster)having been sentfrom North Car-olina by the A\arDepartment toreinforce the ar-my of GeneralHunter. Uponthe decease ofGeneral MitchellGeneral Hunterhad been againassigned to thecommand of theDepartment
. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . old. A\ewere surprised one morning to lind the ground white withsnow, and snow-balling was indulged in by the boys,something of very rare occurrence in South Carolina. On the 31st of January, a tleet of transports sailedup into Port Royal Harbor with 10,000 troops on board,under command of General John G. Foster, (our Nashua General Foster)having been sentfrom North Car-olina by the A\arDepartment toreinforce the ar-my of GeneralHunter. Uponthe decease ofGeneral MitchellGeneral Hunterhad been againassigned to thecommand of theDepartment ofthe South. Soon after thearrival of Gen-eral Foster withhis troops, an is-sue arose be-tween the twocommanding generals. General Hunter and General Fos-ter, as to seniority of rank. General Hunter ordering thecorps. General Foster, insisting upon retaining the identityof his, the i8th army corps, and preparations for a for-ward movement came to a standstill, General Fosterproceeding to Washington to have the matter settled bythe \\ ar Department. 194. GEN. JOHN G. FOSTER. ACTIVE OPERATIONS AGAINST CHARLESTON BEGIN Up to this time the negro ex-slaves had only beenuseful as helpers and workers on the entrenchments, andin the quartermasters department handling stores, alsoas servants to officers, but now they were to be organizedas soldiers, and the first regiment of negro troops that wasever enlisted was organized here at Port Royal as the istSouth Carolina Volunteers, ten companies of eighty menin each company, and officered wholly by white men, non-commissioned officers of the diflerent regiments in thedepartment, sergeants and corporals being commissionedas captains and lieutenants of the colored troops, the fieldofficers, colonels, lieutenant-colonels and majors beingcommissioned from the commissioned officers of the va-rious regiments who were deserving and willing to takesuch a command. This was wholly an experiment, butproved to be surprisingly successful. The negroes an
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