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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2 5 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 3 1 Browse Search
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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 42: March through the Carolinas; Savannah, Ga., to Columbia, S. C. (search)
f bridging came up abreast. The two corps struggled on, bothered more by the swamps than by the brave detachments of clustering Confederates that were always in their advancing way. On February 7th we were out of the woods on the Augusta & Charleston Railroad, near the village of Midway, and destroying the road four miles up and down. The double — forked Edisto River was still ahead. We searched out the crossing as soon as we could drive the Confederates back enough to do so. Holman's, Cannon's, Binnaker's, Walker's, Skillings's, and the railway bridges were examined. Sherman, then with Logan at Lowry's Station (Atlanta & Charleston Railroad), gave us a special field order, directing the taking of Orangeburg. The swampy approaches to the south fork of the Edisto, the cypress, and other trees thickly studding a wide stretch, and the high water extending back hundreds of yards on our side of the river, might have disheartened any men not made up like our experienced and resolut
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 46: negro conditions during the Civil War (search)
ir prayers and an assurance that the good Lord had opened His arms to bless them. The first Association day school was opened by this agent September 17th. It was held in a small house near the female seminary building, which, after the war, became the Hampton Home for Volunteer Soldiers. The first teacher was Mrs. Mary S. Peak, a well-educated free woman of color. With a view to bettering the condition of these people, after a careful investigation by a commission of which Colonel LeGrand B. Cannon was a member, and by whose personal efforts the approval of the Secretary of War was obtained, General Wool issued a general order, March 18, 1862, appointing Mr. Charles B. Wilder Superintendent of Negroes, and providing that all wages earned by persons of African blood be paid to the laborers themselves for their own use and support under such regulations as should be devised by the superintendent. This was an advance from the contraband, fed, clothed, and housed for his labor,
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
Bushbeck, Adolph, 1, 350, 354, 364, 373, 481, 482, 484. Butler, B. F., I, 103, 131, 139, 189, 201; II, 137, 168, 170, 171, 174, 175, 186, 265. Butterfield, Daniel, I, 138, 333, 444, 467, 516, 572, 615; II, 553. Butts, Samuel A., II, 386. Buzzard Roost Gap, II, 504-506, Cade, Mr., II, 139. Caldwell, John C., I, 267, 300, 301, 309, 342. Callender, Franklin D., I, 67. Cameron, Simon, I, 139; II, 170. Canby, Edw. R. 8., II, 188, 216. Candy, Charles, I, 545. Cannon, LeGrand B., II, 175. Carlin, Wm. P., II, 146-148, 344. Carnot, Monsieur, II, 542. Carolinas,. March through, II, 101-159. Carroll, S. S., I, 101, 102, 137, 430. Casey, Silas, I, 170, 172, 177, 179, 182, 183, 190, 198, 211, 220, 229, 230, 232-234, 236. Cassville, Battle of, I, 528-538. Catlett, Lottie, I, 448. Catlett, Mr., I, 448, 449. Chamberlin, Frederick, II, 574. Chambreau, Ned., II, 471, 472. Chancellor, Melzie, I, 363. Chancellorsville, Battle of, I, 347-