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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)
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)
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)
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 49 : the abandoned lands (search)
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)
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)
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)
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)