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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)
several of them. At that time when with the advance of Sherman's Army I came to Beaufort, South Carolina, moving that way to the North from Savannah, many plantations near at hand and on the different sea islands, deserted by their owners, had been sold by the United States tax commissioners and tax titles given to white immigrants from the North, to loyal white refugees, and to promising freedmen. Numbers of farms so obtained were occupied and under cultivation. One proprietor, Mr. C. F. P. Bancroft, had bought in at public auctions, held on the sea islands in March, 1863, thirteen plantations. He then employed 400 laborers, all being old men, women, and children. The average earnings of each over and above his house rent, food raised by himself, and his own crop of cotton were $16.50 per month. This landholder, with $40,000 outlay, received a net profit on his sea island cotton of $81,000 in one year. He had maintained five schools with an attendance of 300 scholars. He a
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 51: the early finances; schools started (search)
at Athens, Tenn., for 95 white children, and partially, for a time near Chattanooga, a refugees' school located in old war buildings which the Confederates had erected near the crest of Lookout Mountain. Mr. Christopher R. Robert of New York City had bought the buildings at the Government's auction sale and devoted them to this use. Mr. Robert ras the same who had established Robert College in Constantinople. A few hundred children were there cared for under the superintendence of Prof. C. F. P. Bancroft, who was later the efficient principal of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. After a few years' trial this Lookout Mountain school was closed. Before a railway came the mountain was too inaccessible. In the face of many difficulties there was hopeful activity the latter part of 1865. An old citizen wrote from Halifax, N. C.: I constantly see in the streets and on the doorsteps opposite my dwelling groups of little negroes studying their lessons. In Charleston, S. C., even in t
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
44. 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, 192, 272. Bancroft, Elizabeth, 11, 575. Bancroft, Joseph, II, 575. Banks, N. P., I, 172, 199, 201, 203, 256, 258, 259; 11, 186, 216. Barker, E. G., 11, 380. Barksdale, William, I, 173. Barlow, Francis C., I, 187, 243, 247, 301,349,357,365,366,369,372,376, 377,408,411,413,414,416,419. Barnes, J. K., II, 258. Barnett, Charles R., II, 556. Barnett, Mrs., Chas. R., II, 556. Barrows, C. D., II, 547. Barry, William F., II, 212. Bartlett, Wm. H. C., I, 55,