# Oliver O. Howard — Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant character guide

> Oliver O. Howard in Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Howard, General Howard, General O. O. Howard

**First appearance:** 0003-i

## Who they are

Union general who commanded the Freedmen's Bureau after the war.

## In the story

### [First Meeting with Secretary Stanton—General Rosecrans—Commanding Military Division of Mississippi—Andrew Johnson’s Address—Arrival at Chattanooga](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/personal_memoirs_of_ulysses_s_grant_se/chapters/xl)

Has his headquarters at Jasper; Grant stops there and telegraphs Burnside.

### [Assuming the Command at Chattanooga—Opening a Line of Supplies—Battle of Wauhatchie—On the Picket Line](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/personal_memoirs_of_ulysses_s_grant_se/chapters/xli)

Leads a division under Hooker; marches to reinforce Geary at Wauhatchie and captures a rebel-held hill en route.

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