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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2	1	1	Browse	Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans)	1	1	Browse	Search
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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 56: famine reliefs; paying soldiers' bounties, and summary of work accomplished (search)

committee reported what I had done. One of the most conservative of our Northern members said at first: We will not give help to rebels. I insisted stoutly: The rebellion is over; people are starving, and humanity demands that we succor them. It is not a question now of whether we shall help those who are likely to perish, for I have already made a beginning and have come to Congress to ask to be sustained. I have sent a shipload of provisions and want approval. A joint resolution (March 30, 1867) followed; it was the substantial answer to my petition. My action was thus approved. The public resolution directed the Bureau: To issue supplies of food sufficient to prevent starvation or extreme want to any and all classes of destitute and helpless persons in those Southern and Southwestern States where failure of the crops and other causes have occasioned widespread destitution. The expenditure itself was not to extend beyond my existing appropriations, but the Congress authori

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