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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 42 | 6 | Browse | Search |
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) | 23 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1 | 8 | 2 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fair Oaks , or seven Pines , battle of (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 opera
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Howard , Oliver Otis 1830 - (search)
Howard, Oliver Otis 1830-
Military officer; born in Leeds, Me., Nov. 8, 1830; graduated at Bowdoin College in 1850, and at West Point in 1854; entered the ordnance corps, and became instructor in mathematics at West Point in 1857.
He took command of the 3d Maine Regiment in June, 1861, and commanded a brigade at the battle of afterwards.
In December, 1864, he was made a brigadier-general in the regular army, and was afterwards brevetted major-general.
At the conclusion of the war General Howard was made commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, and held the office until the bureau was closed, in June, 1872.
Trustee and president of Howard University, hniversity, he resigned in April, 1873.
In 1877 he commanded the expedition against the
Oliver Otis Howard, during the Civil War. Nez Perces Indians; in 1878 the campaigns against the Bannocks and Piutes; in 1880-82 was superintendent of the Military Academy; in 1886 was promoted to major-general; and, Nov. 8, 1894, was retired.
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Langford , Laura Carter Holloway 1848 - (search)
Langford, Laura Carter Holloway 1848-
Author; born in Nashville, Tenn., in 1848; graduated at the Nasville Female Academy; subsequently settled in New York City.
She was twice married.
For twelve years she was associate editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and for nine years president of the Brooklyn Seidl Society of Music.
She was co-editor with Anton Seidl of the department of musical terms of the Standard dictionary.
Her works include The Ladies of the White House; The Hearth-stone, or life at home; Chinese Gordon; Howard, the Christian hero; The Buddhist Diet book, etc.
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