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Auction archive: Lot number 173

American Freedmen's Bureau Letter Written to Gen. O.O. Howard, 1867

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Price realised:
US$390
Auction archive: Lot number 173

American Freedmen's Bureau Letter Written to Gen. O.O. Howard, 1867

Estimate
n. a.
Price realised:
US$390
Beschreibung:

ALS from Benjamin Coates, 2pp. Dated Feb. 25, 1867. Philadelphia, on Pennsylvania Branch, American Freedmen's Union Commission letterhead. Addressed to Genl. O.O. Howard. The American Freedmen's Union Commission was organized in the North and its members raised money, organized schools, recruited teachers, and collected textbooks to educate African Americans in the south and to assist Southerners - white and black - in building a new life. As one of the largest Northern organizations working in the South, the Commission worked closely with the US Government's Freedmen's Bureau. Its proper name was the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. This letter was written to Howard as Chief of the Freedmen's Bureau, which was organized to assist freed slaves in gaining prosperity with land, schooling, and voter rights. Mr. Coates, the writer, is asking Howard for his assistance in reclaiming confiscated lands in Lynchburg, VA, being for a friend whose wife owned the property prior to the Civil War. He states that she was loyal to the United States despite being a Virginian. The lands had been taken over during the war by the Confederates as a hospital, and now used by the Union as Camp Davis, after being seized as property of Rebels. Coates writes of his verification of loyalty of the Haithorne family. He wants the government to return the land to her. Oliver O. Howard (1818-1909), a corps commander who compiled a mixed service record during the Civil War. He was a strict abolitionist during the war and zealous proponent of the black man afterwards, becoming the first commissioner of the Freedman's Bureau in 1865. He was the founder and served as President of Howard University from 1869-1874. Provenance: William Gladstone Collection of Early Photography & African Americana Condition: Typical folds, otherwise ink remains strong and legible.

Auction archive: Lot number 173
Auction:
Datum:
11 Jun 2015
Auction house:
Cowan's Auctions, Inc.
Este Ave 6270
Cincinnati OH 45232
United States
info@cowans.com
+1 (0)513 8711670
+1 (0)513 8718670
Beschreibung:

ALS from Benjamin Coates, 2pp. Dated Feb. 25, 1867. Philadelphia, on Pennsylvania Branch, American Freedmen's Union Commission letterhead. Addressed to Genl. O.O. Howard. The American Freedmen's Union Commission was organized in the North and its members raised money, organized schools, recruited teachers, and collected textbooks to educate African Americans in the south and to assist Southerners - white and black - in building a new life. As one of the largest Northern organizations working in the South, the Commission worked closely with the US Government's Freedmen's Bureau. Its proper name was the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. This letter was written to Howard as Chief of the Freedmen's Bureau, which was organized to assist freed slaves in gaining prosperity with land, schooling, and voter rights. Mr. Coates, the writer, is asking Howard for his assistance in reclaiming confiscated lands in Lynchburg, VA, being for a friend whose wife owned the property prior to the Civil War. He states that she was loyal to the United States despite being a Virginian. The lands had been taken over during the war by the Confederates as a hospital, and now used by the Union as Camp Davis, after being seized as property of Rebels. Coates writes of his verification of loyalty of the Haithorne family. He wants the government to return the land to her. Oliver O. Howard (1818-1909), a corps commander who compiled a mixed service record during the Civil War. He was a strict abolitionist during the war and zealous proponent of the black man afterwards, becoming the first commissioner of the Freedman's Bureau in 1865. He was the founder and served as President of Howard University from 1869-1874. Provenance: William Gladstone Collection of Early Photography & African Americana Condition: Typical folds, otherwise ink remains strong and legible.

Auction archive: Lot number 173
Auction:
Datum:
11 Jun 2015
Auction house:
Cowan's Auctions, Inc.
Este Ave 6270
Cincinnati OH 45232
United States
info@cowans.com
+1 (0)513 8711670
+1 (0)513 8718670
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