There was little foundation for such hope in the average low South Carolinian.

His mind was a shaking quagmire, which did not admit of the erection of any superstructure of education upon it.

The South Carolina guards about us did not know the name of the next town, though they had been raised in that section.

They did not know how far it was there, or to any place else, and they did not care to learn.

They had no conception of what the war was being waged for, and did not want to find out; they did not know where their regiment was going, and did not remember where it had been; they could not tell how long they had been in service, nor the time they had enlisted for.