“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.” Black HistoryUs HistoryUs Civil WarUnited States Colored TroopsUsct Book:Gullah Days: Hilton Head Islanders Before the Bridge 1861-1956 Source: Gullah Days: Hilton Head Islanders Before the Bridge 1861-1956