Howard: the Christian hero

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The Christian Hero

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Characteristics — Early days and ancestry — His two grandfathers — School and home life — Youthful experiences — Engaged to be married — Leaves college — At West Point 11

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Military career — First stations — In the Florida war — Becomes a professing Christian — A temperance sermon — Influence with soldiers — About the Master's work — Returns to "West Point — Diary and letters 36

III

The Civil War — Colonel of a Maine regiment — Reception and dinner in New York — Battle of Bull Run — With the Army of the Potomac — Life in camp — The battle of Fair Oaks — Twice wounded — Returns to his home — "The empty sleeve " 61

IV

At home and at work — Raising volunteers — Returns to the Army of the Potomac — Battle of Fredericksburg — Views regarding Generals McClellan, Burnside, and others — The battle of Chancellorsville — Mr. Chancellor's opinion of General Howard's conduct 81

V

Gettysburg — The three days' fight — Honors to General Howard — Congress and the Maine Legislature thank him — Hastened West — In command of the Army of the Tennessee 97

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The march to tlie sea — Incidents by the way — With General Sherman at Columbia, S. C. — Called to Washington — The new department oflfered him — The Christian and humanitarian work he engaged in — A legacy from President Lincoln 133

VII

The Freedmen's Bureau — Its organization and ramifications — Christian work in Washington — Friends and foes of the Bureau — The destitute refugees — Problems which perplexed General Howard — A thankless labor and its reward 141

VIII

Peace commissioner to the Apache Indians — In Arizona with Captain Jeffords and "Cochees" — Returns to Washington with a delegation of Indians — Peace secured — Howard's treaty confirmed by President Grant, 164

IX

The Court of Inquiry — Vindication — General Howard triumphant — Ordered to the Department of the Columbia — The Nez- Perces War — Incidents of the pursuit and capture of Chief Joseph and his band — An answered prayer — The return — Appointed Superintendent of the Military Academy at West Point , 184