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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