Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day Being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals, and orators. Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher.

CHAPTER XV.--OLIVER O. HOWARD.

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Can there be a Christian Soldier?--General Howard's Birth--His Military Education--His Life Before the Rebellion--Resigns in Order to get into the Field--Made Brigadier for Good Conduct at Bull Run--Commands the Eleventh Corps and Joins the Army at Chattanooga--His Services in the Army of the Potomac-- Extreme Calmness on the Field of Battle--Services with Sherman --Sherman's high Opinion of him--Col. Bowman's Admiration of Howard's Christian Observances--Patriotic Services while Invalided at Home--Reproves the Swearing Teamster--Placed over the Freedmen's Bureau--The Central Historic Fact of the War--The Rise of Societies to Help the Freedmen--The Work of the Freedmen's Bureau--Disadvantages Encountered by it, and by General Howard--Results of the Bureau thus far--Col. Bowman's Description of Gen. Howard's Duties--Gen. Sherman's Letter to Gen. Howard on Assuming the Post--Estimate of Gen. Howard's Abilities. 447