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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown	72	4	Browse	Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I.	6	0	Browse	Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1.	2	0	Browse	Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1861., [Electronic resource]	2	0	Browse	Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Freedmen's Bureau. (search)

Freedmen's Bureau. Early in 1865 Congress established a Bureau of Freedmen, Refugees, and Abandoned Lands, attached to the War Department; and early in May Gen. Oliver O. Howard (q. v.) was appointed commissioner. He appointed eleven assistant commissioners, all army officers; namely—for the District of Columbia, Gen. John Eaton, Jr.; Virginia, Col. O. Brown; North Carolina, Col. E. Whittlesey; South Carolina and Georgia, Gen. R. Sexton; Florida, Col. T. W. Osborne; Alabama, Gen. W. Swayne; Louisiana, first the Rev. T. W. Conway, and then Gen. A. Baird; Texas, Gen. E. M. Gregory; Mississippi, Col. S. Thomas; Kentucky and Tennessee, Gen. C. B. Fisk, Missouri and Arkansas, Gen. J. W. Sprague. The bureau took under its charge the freedmen, the refugees, and the abandoned lands in the South, for the purpose of protecting the freedmen and the refugees in their rights, and returning the lands to their proper owners. In this work right and justice were vindicated. To make the operat

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ohio, (search)

1858 Indicted in the United States court......December, 1858 Bushnell, one of the rescuers, is found guilty in the federal court at Cleveland......April 15, 1859 Supreme Court of Ohio refuse Bushnell's application for a habeas corpus, the proceeding against him in the federal court not being terminated......April 28, 1859 Severe frosts throughout the State destroy most of the wheat......June 5, 1859 Governor Dennison, on the requisition of Governor Letcher, refuses to arrest Owen Brown and Francis Merriam, indicted in Virginia for acts at Harper's Ferry......March 8, 1860 Tornado on the Ohio River from Louisville, Ky., to Marietta; 150 lives lost and property destroyed to the amount of $1,000,000. Great damage done in Cincinnati......May 21, 1860 Population, 2,339,511; 57.4 to square mile......1860 United States calls for thirteen regiments from Ohio......April 15, 1861 Law authorizing the acceptance of ten regiments beyond required number, and providing $50

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