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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 22: battle of Chancellorsville (search)
cavalry undertook to patrol the various roads outward from the vicinity of my command. During the morning of this Saturday it was evident to us that the enemy was doing something-most probably preparing for a general attack. Hancock's angle, or that between Slocum and Sickles, were most favorable points. I sent out my chief of staff more than once to see if my line was in shape and to order the command, through the division commanders, to keep on the alert. Once my staff officer, Major Whittlesey, rode over the entire picket line to see that the front was well covered with skirmishers. He went from the left to the extreme right and made his report. I speak of this to show what unusual precautions I took because of the forest and of the uncertainty of the enemy's movements. Doubtless other corps commanders did the same. The officers, during Saturday, frequently discussed the situation at my headquarters. Every iota of information which I received I sent at once by mounted or
The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
s as, proposed. By this means entire companies subscribed, paid away their hard earnings, and were swindled by unscrupulous men, whose occupation during the war was to prey upon their fellows. The Government detectives are on the track of this set of rascals, and it is expected that, unless they have fled the country, they will be apprehended and suffer the penalty prescribed.--Chronicle. Freedmen affairs. Major-General Howard, Commissioner, has just received a report from Colonel E. Whittlesey, Assistant Commissioner for the State of North Carolina, in which he represents that acts of violence and serious difficulties between negroes and whites are very rare. None deserving mention have been reported during the month. The destitution is not so great as was anticipated, but there is reason to fear that it will increase before spring. In the western district of the State the freedmen are beginning to look for homes, and that contracts are made for the next year at fair wa
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