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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 48: organization of the freedmen's Bureau and my principles of action (search)
army from Atlanta (July 27, 1864), all the way through. Sherman replied: I know it, but it will be everything to Logan to have this opportunity. Then, speaking very gently, as Sherman could, to one near him whom he esteemed, he said: Howard, you are a Christian, and won't mind such a sacrifice. I answered: Surely, if you put it on that ground, I submit. He then wrote me the following letter, which never reached me until forty years after in Hartford, Conn. It was handed to me by Mr. Horace B. Austin, in December, 1904. He had received it from his father, who in turn had it from a clerk in General Sherman's office. The letter had probably blown from the general's table, been picked up and preserved, for it is an autograph letter. Headquarters Military Department of the Mississippi, in the field, May 20, 1865, Camp near Alexandria, Ga. Dear General.: I am this minute in receipt of your communication of this date and I thank you for your generous act. I do think it but just to
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
6. Archer, James J., I, 408, 415. Ardagh, Lieutenant Colonel, 11, 503. Armesy, Thomas D., II, 54. Armistead, L. A., 1, 244, 435. Armitage, Rev.,--, 70. Armstrong, F. C., II, 63. Armstrong, S. C., II, 347, 408, 415. Arnell, Samuel M., II, 437. Arthur, Macaulay, II, 586. Ashby, Henry M., I, 173. Askew, Frank, 1, 570. Asmussen, Charles W., 1, 372, 457, 458, 462. Atlanta, Battle of, II, 3-15. Atlanta, Campaign, I, 499-512. Atwood, A. J., I, 327, 344. Austin, Horace B., II, 211. Avery, Fred B., II, 568, 586. Avery, Isaac W., I, 430. Averysboro, Battle of, 11, 134-142. Bailey, Desire, I, 12. Bailey, Rowland, I, 12. Baird, Absalom, 1, 478, 479, 530, 567, 581; II, 241, 242, 283, 287, 302. Baker, E. D., 1, 174, 175, 267. Baldwin, E. H., 11, 506, 508, 510. Baldwin, Mrs., II, 377. Ballard, Judge, II, 345. Balloch, George W., I, 187, 437, 472; 11, 113, 216, 256, 263, 267, 397. Ball's Bluff, I, 174. Bancroft, C. F. P., 11,