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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)
n command also received some negroes from him and used them as scouts, a few chosen fugitives being dispatched to go beyond the lines and return with information. Evening schools were here opened for the freedmen. At New Berne alone nearly a thousand joyfully accepted the privilege of attending, while willing soldiers in most cases became their instructors. The eagerness of the negro men, women, and children for knowledge of books was a remarkable fact, here emphasized. Later Chaplain Horace James of the Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteers became Superintendent of Negro Affairs for North Carolina, and other officers were detailed to assist him. These covered the territory gradually opened by the advance of our armies in both Virginia and North Carolina. Becoming a quartermaster with the rank of captain in 1864, he, for upward of two years, superintended the poor, both white and black in that region. He grouped the fugitives in small villages, and diligently attended to the
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
337, 350, 351, 358, 367-370, 374, 375, 386, 426, 485; II, 108. Jackson, William H., I, 540, 541, 579, 598; II, 21, 37. James, Darwin R., II, 568,586. James, Horace, II, 176. Jameson, Charles D., I, 134. Jeffords, Thomas, II, 446. Jenkins, A. a., I, 469. Jewett, John N., I, 38, 39. Johnson, Andrew, I, 349; I283, 290, 292, 293, 295. Rigault, Colonel, II, 539. Robert, Christopher R., II, 272. Robert, Henry M., I, 92. Roberts, R. F., I, 143, 144. Robinson, James 8., I, 618. Robinson, John C., I, 415, 424; II, 285, 286. Rochambeau, Marquis, II, 540. Rockface Ridge, Ga., II, 504. Rodes, R. E., I, 300, 390, 400, 4 Wool, John E., II, 175. Woolworth, Jeanie, II, 493. Woolworth, J. M., II, 493. Wotherspoon, Wm. W., II, 565. Wright, A. R., I, 361, 369. Wright, James 8., 111, 81. Wright, R. R., II, 414. Wright, W. W., I, 524. Yarmouth Academy, I, 17, 24, 25. Yorke, L. E., II, 125. Yorktown, Siege of, I, 210. Y