CHAPTER XXX.
COTTON-PLANTING IN 1863.
Leasing the Plantations .-- Interference of the Rebels .-- Raids .-- Treatment of Prisoners .-- The Attack upon Milliken's Bend .-- A Novel Breast-Work .-- Murder of our Officers .-- Profits of Cotton-Planting .-- Dishonesty of Lessees .-- Negroes Planting on their own Account..