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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 46: negro conditions during the Civil War (search)
r the same number of men, women, and children, who, for their attachment to the Union, have been driven or allowed to flee from the Confederate States. Butler would have had no doubt on this question had he not seen an order issued by General Irvin McDowell substantially forbidding all fugitive slaves from coming within his lines or being harbored there. If left to his own discretion he would have taken a widely different course from that which McDowell's order indicated. In a loyal State McDowell's order indicated. In a loyal State he would put down a servile insurrection. In a State in rebellion he would confiscate that which was used to oppose our arms, and take all that property which constituted the wealth of that State, and furnished the means by which the war was prosecuted, besides being the cause of the war; and if, in so doing, it should be objected that human beings were brought to the free enjoyment of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, such objection would not require much consideration. Our Presi
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 61: Court of inquiry; president of Howard University (search)
hostile to the negro and unfriendly to me. After much delay and discussion in Congress, a special court of inquiry of seven army officers of high rank was created by law. General Grant, the President, appointed the court. It first assembled March 3, 1874, in rooms of a dwelling house, No. 1816 F Street. After two adjournments, the members of the court, seven in number, were all present, to wit: 1st. General William T. Sherman, United States Army, President of the Court. 2d. Major General Irvin McDowell, United States Army. 3d. Brigadier General M. C. Meigs, Quartermaster General. 4th. Brigadier General John Pope, United States Army. 5th. Colonel George W. Getty, Third United States Artillery. 6th. Colonel J. J. Reynolds, Third Cavalry. 7th. Colonel N. A. Miles, Fifth Infantry. Major Asa Bird Gardner was appointed judge advocate of the court and, as prosecutor, represented the Secretary of War. The charges were in substance that General Howard had failed to esta
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 68: French army maneuvers, 1884; promotion to Major General, United States army, San Francisco 1886-88 (search)
to pass from Omaha to California and. assume command of the military division which then embraced the entire Pacific coast. The journey was quickly made and on April 17th I issued an order assuming command according to my instructions. At first I made my military headquarters, as my predecessor had done, at the Presidio; but I took my family to reside in a charming spot about halfway between the Presidio and the Oakland landing in San Francisco. There was here a large residence which General McDowell had remodeled, the very place where Mrs. Howard and I had been entertained by the McDowells some years before. Near it was an army post of two companies commanded by Major John A. Darling. The post was officially called Fort Mason, but habitually by civilians Black Point. One aid-de-camp occupied a pretty cottage at the post. The grounds of our main house were very charming-the trees of the southern and tropical growth, the hedges all around of geranium, larger than I had ever seen b
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
2, 186-189, 192-197, 199-207, 209-211, 216, 217, 219, 220, 222, 225, 227, 228, 231, 234, 237, 244, 255-257, 260, 271-274, 277, 278, 288, 289, 291, 294, 298, 302-305, 308, 310-315, 327, 347, 370, 381, 393, 394; II, 169, 581. McClintock, J. M., II, 90. McCook, A. Mc D., I, 105,106,138,588. McCook, Daniel, I, 584, 585, 588. McCook, Ed., I, 501, 542, 544, 566; II, 27, 28. McCoy, H. J., II, 547. McDonald, Private, 1, 190, 215, 569, 570, 572, 573. McDowell, H. J., II, 4. McDowell, Irvin, I, 139, 143, 144, 146, 147, 149-155, 157, 163, 164, 169, 172, 200, 205, 227, 228, 256, 257, 260, 262-265, 272; II, 172, 450, 546. McGilvery, Freeman, I, 436. McGregor, Sergeant, I, 68. Mcllvain, Alexander, I, 505. McIntyre, William, I, 247. McKeever, Chauncey, I, 144; II, 549. McKenzie, Alexander, II, 350. McKinley, William, II, 570, 574. McKinstry, Justus, I, 80. McLaren, Adam N., I, 76. McLaws, Lafayette, I, 275,278,288, 289, 318, 337, 340, 351, 359, 361