66 et seq.] [Footnote 7: _Official Records of the Rebellion_, VIII, p.

370; Williams, _Negro Troops_, p.

75.] [Footnote 8: Eaton, _Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen_, pp.

87, 92.] [Footnote 9: Pierce, _Freedmen of Port Royal, South Carolina_, passim; Botume, _First Days Among the Contrabands_, pp.

10-22; and Pearson, _Letters from Port Royal_, passim.] [Footnote 10: Eaton, _Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen_, p.