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Gullah Days: Hilton Head Islanders Before the Bridge 1861-1956 by Thomas C. Barnwell Jr.
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“One company stayed on without pay. The men, contrabands from Georgia, went to Saint Simons Island to help garrison the island. Proud to be the last soldiers in Hunter's regiment, they hunted invading rebels in dense palmetto thickets.”
― Thomas C. Barnwell Jr., Gullah Days: Hilton Head Islanders Before the Bridge 1861-1956

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“If you wish to know hell before your time,' a Confederate officer wrote, 'go to Saint Simons Island and be hunted for ten days' by colored troops.”
― Thomas C. Barnwell Jr., Gullah Days: Hilton Head Islanders Before the Bridge 1861-1956

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