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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)
similarly tried and cashiered. For this prompt enforcement of discipline I was commended by Mr. Stanton. All outward demonstrations were thus nipped in the bud, so that while other officers in akimbo danced and sang their noisy welcome. A few days after the triumphal entrance, Secretary of War Stanton came in person from Washington to convey his grateful acknowledgment to General Shermand sailors, some ministers, and others who had been overseers on cotton and rice plantations. Mr. Stanton and General Sherman gave them a hearing. It would have been wise if our statesmen could hav brethren. All but one agreed with Frazier, and that one was a Northern negro missionary. Mr. Stanton's final question was occasioned by recently published statements that Sherman was unfriendly e growing masses of unemployed negroes and their families, and after a full consultation with Mr. Stanton, General Sherman issued his Sea-Island Circular, January 16, 1865. In this paper the islands
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 47: freedmen's aid societies and an act of congress creating a Bureau of refugees, freedmen and abandoned lands (search)
he rocks and quicksands predicted, was earnestly desiring to move with care and deliberation. His death, April 15, 1865, prevented him from directly carrying out his purpose; but he did have, not long before his death, a consultation with Mr. Edwin M. Stanton, the Secretary of War, concerning the new Bureau in his Department, and expressed to him his wishes concerning the law and the officials who should carry it out. These wishes were a legacy that Mr. Stanton religiously respected, and as soorying out his purpose; but he did have, not long before his death, a consultation with Mr. Edwin M. Stanton, the Secretary of War, concerning the new Bureau in his Department, and expressed to him his wishes concerning the law and the officials who should carry it out. These wishes were a legacy that Mr. Stanton religiously respected, and as soon as he could he saw to it that they were, as far as he could effect it, fulfilled. NoT.-For the Freedmen's Bureau Act (March 8, 1866), ee Appendix.
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 48: organization of the freedmen's Bureau and my principles of action (search)
tructed. This was not my first interview with Edwin M. Stanton. He had been at times very kind to me, and paeyance. The morning of May 12th, I returned to Mr. Stanton and said: I have concluded to accept the duty youbushel basket heaped with letters and documents. Mr. Stanton, with both hands holding the handles at each end,dy for my immediate use as an office. That day Mr. Stanton caused the following War Department order to be f and I wished to start right. There was found in Mr. Stanton's basket evidence that the military authorities wnd Canby. Those officers commended him highly to Mr. Stanton and myself. For the home office in Washington s and forcibly to displace the freedmen. So with Mr. Stanton's sanction I ordered that all such land under culon was apparently very friendly to me, yet, while Mr. Stanton favored our strong educational proclivities, the charge of each. Fortunately for the Bureau work, Mr. Stanton and General Grant, in sympathy with each other in
to land. In Virginia, a considerable amount had been libeled and was about to be sold, when Mr. Stanton considerately suspended the sales, that these lands might be turned over more directly to thel provision in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Upon our return to Charleston, I sent Mr. Stanton this dispatch: I met several hundred of the colored people of Edisto Island to-day, and di give these people and others the prospect of homesteads. Six days later, on October 25th, Mr. Stanton replied, his message reaching me at Mobile, Ala. He telegraphed: I do not understand that youwe can, then carry it into effect. The very rumor of my coming disturbed them. I answered Mr. Stanton that I had set Captain Ketchum to restore lands to the pardoned, provided they signed the obl finished, I returned to Washington November 18th, and submitted an account of the journey to Mr. Stanton. These were my closing words: It is exceedingly difficult to reconcile the conflictin
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 50: courts for freedmen; medical care and provision for orphans (search)
eded were given. Thus, taking advantage of the army machinery, at a stroke the feeding process was provided for. The general authority for all supplies was put by the law in the hands of the Secretary of War, and so my order after approval by Mr. Stanton required quarterly estimates of all provisions and clothing, and allowed the purchase of rations by teachers and other persons working for refugees and freedmen. A limited transportation was given to teachers on Government transports and raileized from disloyal owners, to be used for schools and for homes for teachers, soldiers' wives, and refugees. A few months having elapsed, October 10, 1865, we received further positive relief. The quartermasters department was directed by Mr. Stanton to turn over to my officers on their requisitions out of their abundance, such quartermaster's stores on hand, and clothing, camp and garrison equipage, unfit for issue to troops, as might be required to enable such officers to perform their p
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 51: the early finances; schools started (search)
Chapter 51: the early finances; schools started Colonel Balloch, before mentioned, was early placed at the head of financial affairs in the Freedmen's Bureau. He came to it by detail from the subsistence department of the volunteer army. It was the original intention of Mr. Stanton and myself that Balloch, who had been an excellent commissary of brigade, of division and of corps, often under me during the progress of the war, should have charge of commissary matters. He was particularly fitted to supervise the procurement and issue of food to destitute refugees and freedmen; but as he was known to be a good financial officer, of large experience and probity, and already under bonds for the faithful disbursement of public funds, I decided to assign him to additional duty as chief accounting officer. There was, the first year, no direct appropriation of money for the support of our Bureau, and in consequence, besides what came from abandoned property, aid had to be obtaine
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 52: President Johnson's reconstruction and further bureau legislation for 1866 (search)
each. Then I carefully instructed subordinates that, touching all subjects of a military character, the agents were to be under the direction of State department commanders. The Bureau officer acted in the same manner as an officer of engineers building a fort might do, reporting on all matters of construction directly to the chief of engineers at Washington, but at the same time being the engineer officer on the staff of a local commander. Fortunately for me the Secretary of War, Mr. Stanton, and General Grant, the commander of all the geographical departments and garrisons, were friendly to my work; it was, therefore, not difficult to secure in that way unity of organization and action; it was easy enough in and near all towns actually garrisoned, and in places which were reached by rail. Perhaps the needs, the hopes, the fears, the failures, and such progress as was made in the Bureau work for 1866 may be best illustrated by some of the work before the courts that year.
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 58: beginning of Howard University (search)
Chapter 58: beginning of Howard University In my earlier interviews with Mr. Stanton in May, 1865, I claimed that the education of the freedmen's children, and of adults, as far as practicable, was the true relief. Relief from what asked Stanton, glancing toward me over his colored glasses. Relief from beggary and dependence, I replied. I had the same opinion with reference to our numerous white refugees of the South, though it was believed that they would naturally be incorporatStanton, glancing toward me over his colored glasses. Relief from beggary and dependence, I replied. I had the same opinion with reference to our numerous white refugees of the South, though it was believed that they would naturally be incorporated in ordinary schools there without such prejudice to their interests as existed against the negro population. Very soon all my assistants agreed with me that it would not be long before we must have negro teachers, if we hoped to secure a permanent foothold for our schools. This conclusion had become plain from the glimpses already given into Southern society. Naturally enough, the most Christian of the Southern people would prefer to have white teachers from among themselves. Feeling a
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)
of 360 students and 18 teachers. I remember well its beginning and followed it with much sympathy and aid. 18. The Swayne School, and also the Emerson School at Montgomery, Ala., not now found in the United States school reports, were absorbed in the newer State Normal School for Colored Students, which gives an aggregate enrollment for 1903 of 416 pupils and 20 teachers. General Swayne, my diligent and able assistant commissioner, aided these schools in every possible way. 19. The Stanton Normal School, of Jacksonville, Fla., began January, 1868. A good building was dedicated April 10, 1869. General G. W. Gile, subassistant commissioner, sent me that day from Florida this dispatch: The Stanton Normal Institute is being dedicated. Thousands assembled send their greeting to you as their truest advocate. That year this Normal had 348 pupils and 6 instructors. 20. Shaw University in Raleigh, N. C., had its inception in 1865 in the work and enterprise of Rev. Dr. H. M. Tup
g, Fred. W., I, 460. Spaulding, Ira, I, 318, 319. Spence, J. F., II, 586. Sprague, J. T., II, 336. Sprague, J. W., II, 7, 13, 14, 215, 218, 250, 251, 290, 335. Sprague, William, I, 138. Spurgeon, Chas. H., II, 542. Spurgin, W. F., II, 488. Stanchfield, Thomas, I, 13. Standish, Miles, I, 7. Stanley, David S., I, 478, 500, 504, 506, 514, 521, 555, 568, 581, 582, 584, 591, 594, 596, 597, 606-611; II, 16, 43, 51. Stannard, George J., I, 438; 11, 580-583. Stanton, Edwin M., I, 201,256, 313, 379, 389; II, 181, 189-191, 205, 207-209, 214, 221, 227, 236, 240, 241, 257, 258, 263, 284, 390. Staples, Henry G., I, 120, 143. Starke, W. E., I, 293. Stearns, D. H., II, 473. Steedman, James B., 1, 601; II, 296, 297. Steele, Chaplain, II, 571. Steele, James, II, 468. Steele, J. W., I, 327. Steinwehr, von, A., I, 350, 357, 363, 364, 368, 372, 408, 413, 417, 424, 467, 479, 494; II, 537. Stetson, Mrs., I, 253. Stevens, Consul, II, 507.