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(MILITARY—RECONSTRUCTION.) EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA.
General Orders No 50, regarding the behavior of the formally hostile inhabitants
and the newly freed slaves.
Small 4to sheet, 9
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New Orleans, 4 September 1865
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An interesting and revealing General Order asking for regular reports regarding the loyalty and behav-
ior of the defeated population of New Orleans as well as this, concerning the colored population:
“These Reports will also state how far the colored population are carrying out the views of the
Government in bonding to constant employment and industry, and laying the groundwork for their
future welfare, or how far they are disposed to idle and dissolute.” Signed in type by Brevet Major
General T.W. Sherman. (not W.T.)
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(MILITARY—RECONSTRUCTION.) HOWARD, OLIVER O.; MAJOR
GENERAL.
Autograph Letter Signed on War Department letterhead,
Washington May 14, 1868; to Major General Joseph A. Mower, “Allow me to
introduce to you my friend O.D. Barrett, Esq. a Lawyer of this city. He visits
New Orleans on some business. He’s interested in the Freedmen’s Schools.”
Single page of letterhead, signed “Yours truly, O.O. Howard, Maj. Genl. Commissioner.”
Washington, 14 May 1868
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Major General Oliver O. Howard was a Medal of Honor winner who served as a corps commander
at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. He was instrumental in the establishment of schools for the freed-
men—Howard University is named for him. This letter on the letterhead of Bureau of Refugees,
Freedmen and Abandoned Lands (i.e. The Freedmen’s Bureau), was intended to introduce O.D.
Barret, someone who was interested in aiding with the establishment of freedmen’s schools to General
Mower, in charge of the efforts in New Orleans.
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