Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant · Character
Oliver O. Howard
Union general who commanded the Freedmen's Bureau after the war.
minor
Also known as Howard, General Howard, General O. O. Howard
First appearance: i
Oliver O. Howard shows up with force in First Meeting with Secretary Stanton—General Rosecrans—Commanding Military Division of Mississippi—Andrew Johnson’s Address—Arrival at Chattanooga. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Has his headquarters at Jasper; Grant stops there and telegraphs Burnside.
Oliver O. Howard first appears in 0003 i.
In First Meeting with Secretary Stanton—General Rosecrans—Commanding Military Division of Mississippi—Andrew Johnson’s Address—Arrival at Chattanooga: Has his headquarters at Jasper; Grant stops there and telegraphs Burnside.
Later, in Assuming the Command at Chattanooga—Opening a Line of Supplies—Battle of Wauhatchie—On the Picket Line: Leads a division under Hooker; marches to reinforce Geary at Wauhatchie and captures a rebel-held hill en route.
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- First Meeting with Secretary Stanton—General Rosecrans—Commanding Military Division of Mississippi—Andrew Johnson’s Address—Arrival at Chattanooga
- Assuming the Command at Chattanooga—Opening a Line of Supplies—Battle of Wauhatchie—On the Picket Line
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