Yankee Stepfather: General O.O.Howard and the Freedman

By William S. McFeely

Book Overview

Instructed by Congress to divide lands abandoned to the Union army into forty-acre plots and award them to freedmen, Howard began a program that might have given many families farms of their own. The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B000RH4E3A
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.