Friday, October 11, 2019

Diary of Laura M. Towne: Sunday, June 15, 1862

The "Secesh" came over to Hutchinson's Island and carried off some of the people, and so General Hunter1 has removed all the remaining to Beaufort. Some men on the island were shot. Hunter cares well for the people.
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1 Major-General David Hunter, in command of the Department of the South.

SOURCE: Rupert Sargent Holland, Editor, Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne: Written from the Sea Islands of South Carolina 1862-1864, p. 69

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