hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 79 results in 17 document sections:

1 2
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 25: the battle of Gettysburg; the second and third day (search)
boy, I'm sorry for you l Weiss sprang up in bed and, lifting his remaining arm, said with vigor: I'm not a poor boy. General Howard has lost his right arm and I my left. That's all there is about it! So every part of that field was visited. Mene grove bordering the road, Sharra found a well-set ambuscade. The men in waiting fired upon the too eager horsemen. Major Howard and Captain Griffith had charged with the cavalry. In my next letter home, written from Emmittsburg the next day (tth some cavalry. We saw some men ahead that looked like stragglers. A dash was made by the cavalry, led by Charles (Major Howard), Captain Griffith, and other officers. Poor Griffith was very badly wounded by a sudden fire from the woods and thic before leaving. I told him his wound (which afterwards proved fatal) was a punishment to me and not to him. Charles (Major Howard) is well, but we are all pretty well tired out. I long for rest. Before I left Gettysburg, with Professor Stoever,
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)
willingness to do justice to the freedmen; and so the experiment began with fair success in that State. All officers and agents of the Bureau available were instructed to act as advocates of the freedmen in these courts; and the right to withdraw Government recognition from the courts was kept in the hands of the assistant commissioner. As soon as our action was known to the country, many of the negroes' pronounced friends, and among them Wendell Phillips, severely condemned my action. Howard has put the freedmen into the jaws of the tiger, he cried. But the ready answer which I gave was: Justice in time will work itself clear. It is a long step gained to secure the negro's testimony in the Southern courts. Excellent reports soon came from nearly every quarter of Alabama. There were, however, a few exceptions on the borders of Tennessee and Georgia. A similar course was tried in Mississippi, but the results, owing to the strong indigenous prejudice against negroes as witne
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)
neral 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. General C. H. Howard, who had succeeded General Eaton in the District of Columbia and vicinity, found it next to impossible to get the courts to allow the testimony of colored witnesses anywhere in Maryland until the effect of the United States Civil Rights Law, recently enacted, which forbade such distinction, came into play. Upon a case of great outrage, committed by a white man upon a negro, where the Bureau agent brought the white man to trial and the white man was condemned and sentenced, an appeal
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 55: first appropriation by congress for the bureau; the reconstruction Act, March 2, 1867; increase of educational work (search)
ved the snap of the pupils during the exercises can doubt it. What I was most gratified with was the enthusiasm for and pride in knowledge, which is a motive power that, if given play, will carry them up to noble attainments. Armstrong thus studied the situation at Hampton; came to the true conclusions, and made them the steppingstone to his own great achievements in the line of Christian training. General C. H. Gregory was made assistant commissioner for Maryland and Delaware, and General C. H. Howard continued in charge of the District of Columbia and West Virginia. Under the latter educational work was cooperative and supplemental and the District of Columbia the principal field. Benevolent associations and freedmen's contributions sustained the schools to the extent of paying the salaries of the teachers and incidental expenses. But our Bureau furnished the buildings by rental or by construction, and aided the societies as elsewhere by transportation of their teachers to plac
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 56: famine reliefs; paying soldiers' bounties, and summary of work accomplished (search)
olored soldiers, sailors, and marines, or their heirs. This resolution underwent considerable discussion, and no little opposition. It provided that all checks for the object named should be made payable to me as commissioner, or to my order. Senator Wilson showed abundant evidence of the frauds against the soldiers and marines that had been already committed, and averred that the second comptroller and the second auditor urged the passage of the resolution. Mr. Wilson was asked if General Howard should not be required to give bonds, and replied: I have no objection to his giving bond, but this is imposing upon him a duty for which he gets nothing, and it is a great responsibility. I think it is enough to ask him to do this work. Even while I was frequently consulted and was myself urging some legislation to protect these wards of the Government, I did not dream of the passage of such an Act as the one that finally went through both Houses and became a law (March 29, 1867). All
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 69: transferred to New York city (search)
il I was receiving word of the extreme illness of my good mother, then living with my brother General C. H. Howard, at Glencoe, Ill. My brother wrote about that time: If you expect to see mother alivethe new field. The great care of packing up our household goods in San Francisco was left to Mrs. Howard, and with the children she came across the continent by the Canadian Pacific. We were soon afrom this illness, February 14, 1891, he expressed a strong desire that his two wing commanders, Howard and Slocum, should conduct his funeral services. Accordingly his brother, Hon. John Sherman, wron, Conn., and returned home. Harry had passed through a severe attack of typhoid fever, and Mrs. Howard and I thought that it would be a good plan for them to go abroad together and perfect their Fr good friend, M. Adolph Chauvet, in Evreux, France. This was done and the following January Mrs. Howard left New York on the Friesland, and after a pleasant voyage joined the children, and they tra
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
2 290, 292-295, 302, 303, 311, 317, 318, 322, 326, 329, 333, 342, 343, 347, 348, 350, 352-354, 356-362, 365-369, 373-376, 379, 381-395, 397, 398, 450, 452, 458-461, 465, 467, 469-471, 476, 480, 483-485, 488, 489, 494, 495, 516-518, 523, 528-531, 542, 544-550, 560, 561, 564, 566, 571, 573-577, 581, 586, 592-595, 606, 618; II, 16,583. Hornburger, Tom, II, 387. Horner, C. W., II, 216, 259, 295. Hovey, A. P., I, 518. Howard, Capt., I, 526. Howard, Bessie, II, 555, 573, 575. Howard, C. H., I, 13, 113, 119, 161, 187, 214, 215, 246, 248, 249, 251, 252, 298, 344, 386, 414, 416, 442, 443, 455, 457, 458, 472, 497, 515, 537, 556; II, 24, 45, 78, 79, 285, 34, 396, 397, 549, 576. Howard, Chancey Otis, II, 546. Howard, Eliza Otis, I, 4-16. 591 Howard, Grace Ellen, I,86,96; 11,46. Howard, Guy, I, 69; II, 475, 476, 493, 538, 539, 565, 572, 573. Howard, Mrs., Guy, II, 538, 556,573, Howard, Harry S., II, 555, 656, 575. Howard, Helen, II, 493. Howard, Hildegard,
1 2