Judge Stickney spoke. The whole regiment then sang " John Brown," and was dismissed in a few words from the Colonel to the tables for the twelve roasted oxen,1 hard bread, and molasses and water, except one company and certain corporals whom he mentioned, who came to the foot of the steps to escort the colors.

Paris IslandJohn C. Zachos was assigned to serve as superintendent on Paris Island, a position he held until November or December 1862 as one of the first Gideonites.. Among the best early sources relating to wartime Paris Island is a report written by Zachos at the end of 1862. He reported that there were 330 persons living on the island, including 130 children, 150 available to work the fields (half of those werewomen), 12 old people, 4 or 5 invalids, six carpenters, and an unspecified number of house servants. During the previous growing season, they had harvested Ã´220 acres of cotton, 300 acres of corn, 46 of sweet potatoes, 20 of rice and garden products, for a total of 590 acres under cultivation. Total income as a result of this effort came to only $3.00 per person, with which, as Zachos notes, they were to clothe and support themselves for a year. Mr. Zachos had a role to play in the 1st Emancipation Proclamation celebration on January 1, 1863. He read and the audience sang a poem he had written.

Zachos was replaced as Paris Island Superintendent by Frances Dana Gage, a well-known Ohio abolitionist and temperance advocate who traveled to