Project Gutenberg 2008-03-01 Public domain in the USA. 403 Pearson, Elizabeth Ware Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Diane Monico, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Letters from Port Royal" by Elizabeth Ware Pearson is a collection of letters written during the Civil War, particularly from the years 1862 to 1868. The letters are penned by a group of Northern volunteers who traveled to Port Royal, South Carolina, to assist formerly enslaved people and manage plantations after the Union captured the area. The correspondence provides a vivid account of their personal experiences, challenges, and observations regarding the lives of Freedmen and their efforts to cultivate the land. The opening of the collection sets the stage for this historical period, detailing the arrival of the volunteers and their initial impressions of the Sea Islands, the newly freed African American populations, and the agricultural landscape. The primary figure, Edward S. Philbrick, communicates his excitement and sense of duty to contribute positively to the lives of the freedmen, while navigating the complexities of supervising their labor in an unaccustomed environment. As the letters unfold, they capture the dynamic interactions between the volunteers and the local population, the challenges posed by the remnants of slavery, and the gradual establishment of trust and cooperation in the face of historical upheaval. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 76.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en African Americans -- South Carolina South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Beaufort (S.C.) -- History E456 F206 Text United States Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - American Browsing: History - Warfare Category: Biographies Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: History - American 864173 2025-06-10T09:18:55.468342 text/html 818917 2008-03-01T13:54:58 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 363207 2021-01-03T08:47:58 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 495786 2025-06-10T09:19:20.107242 application/epub+zip 508093 2025-06-10T09:19:03.277312 application/epub+zip 363377 2025-06-10T09:18:59.264374 application/epub+zip 1059271 2025-06-10T09:19:30.193725 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 957836 2025-06-10T09:19:15.596321 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 575184 2022-09-11T11:35:37.170626 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 612855 2025-06-10T09:18:52.624363 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 612663 2021-01-03T08:47:58 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 237363 2021-01-03T08:47:58 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 612687 2021-01-03T08:47:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 237326 2021-01-03T08:47:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21184 2025-06-10T09:19:30.376669 application/rdf+xml 10622 2025-06-10T09:19:00.015333 image/jpeg 2927 2025-06-10T09:18:59.645293 image/jpeg 427852 2025-06-10T09:18:55.543318 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog