January 6, 1863.
For the first time in the six weeks Colonel H. has been in
camp, he to-day went to Beaufort. He returns with a more civilized air and
informs me that there are yet many people outside our camp.
The rebel pickets above came down to the river bank this
morning and announced that an armistice had been agreed upon for six months,
and therefore laid aside their guns and sat on the bank, fishing. Their
statement is not credited, because nobody believes the insanity of the nation
has taken such a disastrous turn.
I am steadily becoming acquainted with very remarkable men
whose lives in slavery and whose heroism in getting out of it, deepens my faith
in negro character and intellect. The difference in physiognomy. among them now
seems to me quite as marked as among the whites and the physiognomy of their
diseases is quite as apparent to me.
SOURCE: Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society,
Volume 43, October, 1909—June,1910: February 1910. p. 341
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