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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)
tention whatever to such uncalled — for orders, they said. After that I was hopeful that I should have no more slave cases to deal with. But soon after this, there was led in a large, dark fellow, with the thickest of lips and the broadest of noses, whose utterance was hard for one uninitiated to understand. How did you get past the picket? I asked. I thorounded um, thir. He, too, found the Potomac and freedom. A man who could surround a picket was smart enough to reach and pass Mason and Dixon's line. There were other commanders on our front lines in the East and the West who more fully carried out their instructions; so that, for a time, hundreds of escaping slaves who had come in, full of the hope of freedom, were caught as in a net and given up to men and women who visited the camps and laid claim to them; such visitors were permitted to carry their servants back to bondage, and sometimes soldiers were sent to escort the fugitives on their return. All the armies
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 70: D. L. Moody on board the Spree; Spanish War, 1898; Lincoln Memorial University; conclusion (search)
s of old war veterans, a slight feeling of homesickness came over me as I looked on the full uniforms of my three young officers; I gave them my last order — to leave me-bidding them an affectionate farewell. Although I had anticipated this retirement, still it finally came like a shock, and it took me some days to become used to the situation, with no one to command. On our way to Portland, Ore., where we were to spend the winter, we stopped at Fort Snelling to see my good friend Colonel E. C. Mason, who had been my chief of staff during the Nez Perces Indian campaign, 1877. Although I protested, stating that I was supposed now to be retired, the Colonel welcomed me with a military salute of eleven guns. He said that I would always be his commander and so gave me a review of his entire regiment. In the march past, commanding a company, was my former aid-de-camp, Captain M. C. Wilkinson, who in the Nez Perces War in the battle of the Clearwater, July 11 and 12, 1877, had under
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
ska War, I, 12. Magruder, J. B., I, 141, 205, 206. Mahan, Dennis, I, 385. Mallory, Charles, II, 168. Malvern Hill, Battle of, I, 166. Maney, George, I, 612, 616. Manigault, E. II, 12. Mann, Horace, II, 393. Mann, M. R., Miss., II, 393. Mansfield, Joseph K. F., I, 131, 132, 135, 137, 272, 277, 289, 290, 294, 295, 302. Marcy, R. B., I, 96, 170, 177. Marshall, Joe, I, 19. Marshall, John E., I, 341. Martin, Sella, II, 317. Martin, James S., II, 10. Mason, E. C., I, 218, 219; II, 565. Meade, George G., 1, 282, 283, 290, 292, 333-337, 349, 353-355, 359-363, 367, 377, 381, 387, 389, 394-399, 401, 403, 404, 413, 418, 422-426, 432, 433, 436, 439, 440, 444, 445,448-451,580; II, 255,429,496. Meagher, Thomas F., I, 183, 185, 238, 243, 300, 342. Meigs, M. C., 1, 164; II, 450. Mellen, W. P., II, 188. Meredith, Sol, I, 407, 414. Merritt, Wesley, I, 434. Mersy, August, II, 14. Mexican War, I, 21. Meyerholtz, J. H., 11, 552. Meysen