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Letters of Dr. Seth Rogers, 1862-1863, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, XLII (Boston, 1910)
Life on the Sea Islands, Part II, Charlotte Forten, Atlantic Monthly XIII (June 1864), pp. 666-676
Life on the Sea Islands, Part I, by Charlotte Forten, Atlantic Monthly XIII (May 1864), pp. 587-596
The Freedmen of Port Royal Island, Charles Nordhoff, Editor, Atlantic Monthly VIII (November 1861), pp. 626-640
Journal of Miss Susan Walker, March 3d to June 6, 1862
Army Life In a Black Regiment, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops Late 1st S.C. Volunteers, Susie King Taylor
From a New England Woman's Diary in Dixie, Mary Ames, Editor
Letters from Port Royal, Written at the Time of the Civil War
Abstract:
- Map of Plantations on the Sea Islands in Beaufort, St. Helena, Hilton Head and surrounding Sea Islands.
- First-hand accounts written by Edward S. Philbrick and others involved in the Port Royal Experiment
Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne, Written from the Sea Islands of South Carolina, 1862-1864
Slavery in South Carolina and the Ex-Slaves, Or, The Port Royal Mission
History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865
Sholes' Directory of the City of Charleston, 1882
Seven Folk-Tales from the Sea Islands, South Carolina
The Black Border: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast
Afro-American Folklore: Told Round Cabin Fires on the Sea Islands of South Carolina
A History of Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion
The Freedmen's Bureau: A Chapter in the History of Reconstruction
Roll of Honor: Names of Soldiers Who Died in Defense of the American Union: pp. 128-138: United States Colored Troops, South Carolina
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
The Black Phalanx: A History of Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-65, by Joseph Thomas Wilson
Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the First Session, Thirty-ninth Congress (1866)
Census of the City of Charleston, South Carolina for the Year 1861
Directory of the City of Charleston for the Year 1852
Charleston City Directory for the Year 1888
Marriage Notices in the South Carolina Gazette and Its Successors (1732-1801)