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Updated: June 9, 2025
The fish sprang from the water as I touched it with my light oars. St. Simon's Island, where Mr. Pierce Butler once cultivated sea-island cotton, and to which he took his English bride, Miss Kemble, with its almost abandoned plantation, was reached before ten o'clock. Frederica River carried me along the whole length of the island to St. Simon's Sound.
The incidents illustrate, too, the nature of the obstacles daily encountered and overcome by our troops; for no one who has never seen or stepped into a Sea-Island marsh can realize how difficult it was for our forces to obtain a foothold in the vicinity of Charleston. This was appreciated by the old freedman whom we left in the boat while crossing the mud.
The production of the blue staple virtually ended with the colonial period. The War of Independence not only cut off the market for the time being but ended permanently, of course, the receipt of the British bounty. When peace returned the culture was revived in a struggling way; but its vexations and vicissitudes made it promptly give place to sea-island cotton.
Some Southern mills, however, spin very fine yarn from either Egyptian or sea-island cotton, but time is required to educate a considerable body of operatives competent to do the more delicate tasks, while less skillful workers are able to produce the coarser numbers. Southern mills have paid high dividends in the past and have also greatly enlarged their plants from their earnings.
Sea-island cotton would yield excellent crops if it were not that a caterpillar devours the young plants, so that its culture has almost ceased. Only 10,000 pounds were exported in 1872.
Looking down the bay on the right, was James Island, an irregular triangle of about seven miles, the whole island in cultivation with sea-island cotton. At the lower end was Fort Johnson, then simply the station of Captain Bowman, United States Engineers, engaged in building Fort Sumter. As the rock reached the surface it was levelled, and made the foundation of Fort Sumter.
Looking down the bay on the right, was James Island, an irregular triangle of about seven miles, the whole island in cultivation with sea-island cotton. At the lower end was Fort Johnson, then simply the station of Captain Bowman, United States Engineers, engaged in building Fort Sumter. As the rock reached the surface it was levelled, and made the foundation of Fort Sumter.
Closely allied with the rubber end of the trade is the growing demand for sea-island cotton, which is used in the tires. A few years ago we used only fifty thousand yards a year; now we absorb ten million yards, worth seven and one-half millions of dollars. Now take machinery, and you find that the automobile business has created a whole new phase of this time-tried industry.
Another case of absentee neglect, made notorious through Fanny Kemble's Journal, was the group of rice and sea-island cotton plantations founded by Senator Pierce Butler on and about Butler's Island near the mouth of the Altamaha River. When his two grandsons inherited the estate, they used it as a source of revenue but not as a home.
Mineral and other Wealth of Virginia. Slave-Breeding in Former Times. The Auriferous Region of North Carolina. Agricultural Advantages. Varieties of Soil in South Carolina. Sea-Island Cotton. Georgia and her Railways. Probable Decline of the Rice Culture. The Everglade State. The Lower Mississippi Valley. The Red River. Arkansas and its Advantages. A Hint for Tragedians. Mining in Tennessee.
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