Named Entity Browser, De Soto Point (Florida, United States)

Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help

Search for dates:

From:		,
	Month	Day	Year
To:		,

Enter a month, day and/or year to search for references to that date. You do not need to fill out every field: searching only for "1863" will find all references to the year 1863, while searching for "July 4" will find all references to the 4th of July, regardless of year.

Enter a starting date and an ending date to find all occurrences of dates in between.

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document	Max. Freq	Min. Freq
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2	2	0	Browse	Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1863., [Electronic resource]	2	0	Browse	Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2. You can also browse the collection for De Soto Point (Florida, United States) or search for De Soto Point (Florida, United States) in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 49: the abandoned lands (search)

farms connected with each, faithfully worked by freedmen. The Mississippi assistant commissioner, Colonel Thomas, for 1865, had worked enough farms to raise a sufficient revenue for Bureau purposes within that State. From every part of Mississippi he showed that freedmen desired to have homes of their own; that they were willing enough to work places which they held by rent, or which they felt were secured to them for their use. The freedmen working land assigned them at Davis Bend, De Soto Point, and at Washington near Natchez, had labored hard and did well. At least 10,000 bales of cotton were raised by these colonists. They had gardens and corn enough to furnish food for themselves and for their stock for the year. Thomas wrote: A more industrious, energetic body of citizens does not exist than can be seen now at the colonies. In other parts of Mississippi, Thomas found fine crops of grain; the negroes were at home and working quietly. They had generally contracted wit

Search for a person:
In:	Forenames Surnames Full name

Named Entity Results, De Soto Point (Florida, United States)