Chapter 11

SANITARY WORK.

Organized Freedmen's Relief Association--Solicit Supplies--Academic Year Opened for 1863-4--Sister Backus and Self leave for Fields of Suffering--Incidents on the Way--Mission Work in Natchez, Mississippi--Four Hundred Slaves Hanged and otherwise Tortured--Visit to the Calaboose--Mission Work in Baton Rouge--Arrival at New Orleans--Sketch of Persecutions