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The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], Matters at Charleston. (search)
oners appeared very humble and penitent, and were rather pleased than otherwise at being captured, after discovering that they were not immediately hung, as the negroes are told they will be in case of falling into the hands of the Southerners. Experience of a slave in the Yankee lines — the Way the negro soldiers are Treated — negro conscription. Last week James, a very intelligent and observant negro, who ran away about a year ago from Mr. Wm. R. Habersham's plantation, on the Ogeechee river, Georgia, and who has since been living amongst the Yankees in and near Beaufort, made his escape through the enemy's lines and returned to seek his master. His account of the condition of affairs in Beaufort is interesting, and in some respects important. During the greater portion of his absence James has been used as a servant on the plantation of Mr. Edward Walker, six miles from Beaufort, by a Yankee, named Thompson, the "Superintendent." of Negroes. Thompson has his two sist