Identifier: autobiographyofo02howa (find matches)
Title: Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general, United States Army
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis), 1830-1909
Subjects: United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns
Publisher: New York, The Baker & Taylor Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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at care of packing upour household goods in San Francisco was left to Mrs.
Howard, and with the children she came across the
continent by the Canadian Pacific. We were soon all
together again at Governor's Island. As I had care of both the Military Division and the
Department of the East, there was an abundance of
official work. Shortly after this, very sensibly, the
military divisions were abolished and thereafter, with
the loss of a few grains of official dignity, I commanded
only the department, but it took a sweep of country
big enough for ordinary ambition. It extended from
the Lakes to the foot of Louisiana. Not a very active
command with only twenty-odd army posts to look out
for, but ones eyes had to be kept open during strikes,
labor troubles, and riots, or disturbance beyond the
control of the States and cities within that domain.
In peace, contingencies must be meditated upon, and
the army commander be always ready for promptaction.
During 1889, when making my inspections, I visited

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MAJOR GENERAL HOWARD, COMMANDING DEPARTMENT OF THE EAST, 1888

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