Yankee Stepfather: General O. O. Howard and the Freedmen (Revised) by William S. McFeely

Yankee Stepfather: General O. O. Howard and the Freedmen (Revised)

William S. McFeely

368 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective slow-paced
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Instructed by Congress to divide lands abandoned to the Union army into forty-acre plots and award them to freedmen, Howard began a program that might have given many families farms of their own. The effort had barely begun when it ran into Presid...

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