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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 39: General Hood's northward march; Sherman in pursuit; battle of Allatoona (search)
oper, ample, and convenient shelter, and good, wholesome food equivalent to a soldier's rations. Indeed, whether the United States ever did maltreat its prisoners or not, it had long been contrary to the laws of nations to cripple an enemy by the drisoners of war. I have the honor to be, very respectfully yours, S. G. French, Major General Commanding Forces Confederate States. All of us who knew Corse can see with what promptness and energy he instantly penned his brief response: Headquarters Fourth Division, Fifteenth Corps, Allatoona, Ga., 8.30 a.m., October 5, 1864. Major General S. G. French, Confederate States Army, etc.: Your communication demanding surrender of my command I acknowledge receipt of. and respectfully replyeeable to you. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, John M. Corse, Brigadier General Commanding Forces United States. As soon as the return dispatch was off, Corse visited the different fronts of his redoubt and told the officers and
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 is simply whether they shall be used for or against the Government of the United States. I shall hold these negroes as contraband of war. After that action theessing sight to see these poor creatures who had trusted to the arms of the United States, and who had aided the troops, thus obliged to flee from their houses, and ir attachment to the Union, have been driven or allowed to flee from the Confederate States. Butler would have had no doubt on this question had he not seen an ornated part of a State, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free. This proclamation republis States concerned did not lay down their arms and submit to the laws of the United States before January 1, 1863, all the slaves would be free henceforth and forevern the different sea islands, deserted by their owners, had been sold by the United States tax commissioners and tax titles given to white immigrants from the North,
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)
ion of a Commissioner of Freedmen's Affairs. His powers were to be large. All matters pertaining to freedmen, all laws enacted or prospective concerning them, and all rules and regulations for general superintendence and management were committed to him. 2. All officers, military or civil, having to do with freedmen's affairs must report and be governed by him. 3. He was especially instructed to give protection to the freedmen in their rights, and to care for the interests of the United States touching them. 4. He was able to organize departments of freedmen to be placed under assistant commissioners who were to report to him. 5. These assistants were to allow freedmen to occupy, cultivate, and improve abandoned lands; assist them to labor properly compensated; aid them to obtain their wages duly earned, and arbitrate all troublesome controversies except in those localities where existing legal tribunals could receive the cases at issue. 6. The commissioner himself wa
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)
e made graphic, when the Western armies passed before the President of the United States, Logan led the Army of the Tennessee. Just before the march began I asked indicating that they had sentimental views in regard to the relation of the United States to the freedmen; the logical result of those views was that under my circul the negro had merely changed masters from the Southern slave owners to the United States; they implied that the Government should support the emancipated even if i, and not taken cognizance of by other tribunals, civil or military, of the United States. . . . My friends complained that the following was legislation. Yes, iuired for registration at places designated. Registrations already made by United States officers were carefully preserved. No objection was made to some wholesognature is written: Approved June 2, 1865. Andrew Johnson, President of the United States. The foregoing statements show the principles and methods under which I
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 49: the abandoned lands (search)
ceding was available; it was all that had ever been held by the United States as abandoned. Had this project been carried out and the negroeor otherwise in aiding or encouraging the war waged against the United States. Again, that on June 2d the President had ordered all officerstion as would protect the bona fide occupants, and expected the United States to indemnify by money or otherwise those Confederates who were nfiscated until it has been condemned and sold by decree of the United States court for the district in which the property may be found, and the title thereto thus vested in the United States. On the face of it this approved circular appeared fair and right enough; but with mashe farms guaranteed to them by the provision and promise of the United States. My heart was sad enough when by constraint I sent out that ble, and that these lands or a part of them be purchased by the United States with a view to the rental and subsequent sale to the freedmen.
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)
s minor justice was administered by these Bureau courts constituted wholly or partially from officers or agents of the Bureau; but everywhere when practicable we associated civilians with our officials. By orders, the power as to punishment was limited to not exceed $100 fine, or thirty days imprisonment. All cases of capital crimes, felonies, or questions relating to titles to real estate were referred to some State court, if such existed where the case occurred, or to a court of the United States, or to military commissions. These lesser bureau courts were often necessary for the protection of negroes against small personal persecutions and the hostility of white juries. The higher courts of a State, though not admitting the testimony of people of color, were usually fair. As soon as the military occupation of the South had been completed, provost courts, a military substitute for civil courts in unoccupied territory, were established here and there in each State. We gl
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 51: the early finances; schools started (search)
ew that the school building, which was the freed people's best relief, could be disposed of at any time; and that very soon the interest of the fund, mostly in United States bonds, would cover the purchase. One day in conversation with Senator Lot M. Morrill, I called his attention to this fund. He said that such an expenditureted an account with his vouchers for that fund to an auditor of the Treasury, who declined to receive it because of its nature, not being, as he said, properly United States funds. After that refusal neither of us again submitted accounts of that fund to the auditing office. Balloch left his vouchers when mustered out of service s were paid, I was able to account for the entire fund to the satisfaction of the court. This result, however, did not satisfy General Belknap, who caused the United States to sue me for the entire fund. That suit was brought against me after I had gone to Oregon and taken command of the Department of the Columbia. The case was
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)
y would have it. All those who had been for four years fighting against the United States were again in power at the State capitals, or so close behind those in offitestimony of colored witnesses anywhere in Maryland until the effect of the United States Civil Rights Law, recently enacted, which forbade such distinction, came inng a good effect, restraining those who had hitherto been disposed to treat United States laws with contempt. Several magistrates were under arrest for violating itcivil officers elected by the people, to call their attention afresh to the United States laws involved, and to entreat them to lay aside all feelings of prejudice, ty of the freed people existed in Tennessee than in any other of the late Confederate States. Kentucky had meanwhile been full of trouble. The regulators had beend and nobody was arrested and brought to trial except through the agency of United States officers, most of them of our Bureau. In three counties it had been nece
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 53: the bureau work in 1866; President Johnson's first opposition (search)
sippi that demands some other remedy than the removal of the military force, that is, if freedmen and peaceable citizens are to be protected. The murder of a United States officer, and the firing upon others without cause, are admitted, and there is evidently a reign of terror in portions of the State. . . . The inspectors comee with the inspectors altogether as to a complete revolution in the sentiment of the Southern people which insures sufficient protection to the freedmen, when United States officers and freedmen are murdered, and the freedmen abused and mutilated, as is reported by the inspectors themselves. They say the good feelings of the whjustice. The work committed to it may doubtless be done by the army, without a bureau, but not with much less expense. Yet, if the Government would keep good faith with its new-made citizens, some sort of a United States agency must be maintained in the Southern States until society shall have become more settled than it now is.
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)
ived its death blow, and the fact has been proclaimed, not only in America but throughout the world. In view of this we must seek courage anr to say negro as well as African — that is, refer to this race in America as well as in Africa-and that the Methodists would now see and meetory of 250 years has demonstrated the fact that the black race in America, or wherever dispersed, can neither be forever enslaved or blottede of God-fearing and libertyloving men that laid the foundation in America for the triumph which we enjoy to-day. I remember that national celaware to the Rio Grande. Not a cradle of yours can be robbed in America to-day; not a wife of yours can be torn from your bosom; not a bloithful men. Every fetter of yours is broken, and every man born in America can stand up and say: I am a man, a brother, a citizen of the Amerhould participate in the celebration of the Independence of the United States I will do it as to-day with a free, undivided heart and mind.
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