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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 54: public addresses concerning the freedmen in 1866, advocating education (search)
d called out the President. They passed the Army and Navy Departments, General Grant's and my headquarters, and Charles Sumner's house, cheering heartily at every point of interest as they went. The long column of glad souls had a dozen bands of music preceding their well-regulated divisions. There was no point from which one could see the entire length of the parade. At last it was massed at Franklin Square. Beautiful banners were tastefully grouped around the ample speakers' stand. Bishop Payne, of the African Methodist Church from South Carolina, opened this public occasion in a brief and appropriate prayer. He was a negro very dark, slight in stature, with handsome, regular features and was wearing large spectacles; he spoke the choicest of English. His people were greatly delighted with his ministrations and held him in high esteem. Then arose the tall Henry Highland Garnett, the colored man who stood in point of oratory and influence next to Frederick Douglass in the o
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 59: institutions of the higher grade; the Barry Farm (search)
ty of educating negroes. Its first buildings, altogether too small, cramped the work till the trustees moved to the head of Chapin Street, Meridian Hill. The patrons are of the Baptist Home Mission Board, and the thorough good results the seminary has already accomplished cannot be overestimated. Its enrollment (1897) gives 159 students and 15 officers, and other instructors. 25. Wilberforce University, under the patronage of the African Methodist people, began in the fifties. Bishop D. A. Payne of the A. M. E. Church was president from 1863 to 1876. Like Lincoln University, I found it the right sort of helper to furnish teachers as the freedmen's educational institutions developed, and so I rendered it, as I did Oberlin College and for the same reason, what encouragement and pecuniary aid was in my power. Wilberforce being near Xenia, O., Oberlin College at Oberlin, O., and Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, neither of the three in the former slave States, subsequently cau
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
I, 18, 40. Otto, August, I, 428. Overton, M. F., II, 587. Owen, Joshua T., I, 323, 326, 342, 343. Packard, A. 8., I, 31, 33. Page, Alexander, II, 387. Palmer, G. 8., I, 119, 137, 178, 249, 250, 310. Palmer, Innis S., I, 229, 341. Palmer, John M., I, 479, 505, 513, 530, 531, 542, 544, , , 573, 575, 581, 582, 584, 590, 592, 593, 606, 616, 619; II, 29, 30. Parker, Thomas J., I, 190, 243. Patterson, Robert, I, 133, 151, 164. Patterson, Robert F., II, 686. Payne, D. A., II, 320, 413. Peach TreeCreek, Battle, I,608-620. Peak, Mary S., II, 175. Pearson, E. P., I, 412, 472. Peck, John J., I, 233. Peck, Theodore S., II, 580, 582. Pender, William D., I, 407. Pendleton, George H., II, 200. Pendleton, William N., I, 351, 358, 380, 421. Peninsular Campaign, I, 166, 199-212. Perley, Peleg Sprague, I, 30, 35, 98. Perry, A. J., I, 70. Petit, Rufus D., I, 243. Pettengill, John, I, 26. Pettigrew, J. J., I, 239, 400, 406, 439