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William Fowler to Col. O. Brown
William Fowler
Amistad Research Center
New Orleans, United States
This letter relates the orders of Freedmen’s Bureau Commissioner Oliver O. Howard to transfer charge of Chesapeake Hospital, near Hampton Virginia, to George Whipple of the American Missionary Association (AMA), in order to accommodate the ever-expanding need of educating freedmen. This letter shows the close relationship between the AMA and the Freedmen’s Bureau. General Howard is the namesake of Howard University.
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- Title: William Fowler to Col. O. Brown
- Creator: William Fowler
- Subject Keywords: American Missionary Association, United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
- Type: document
- Rights: Physical rights are retained by the Amistad Research Center. The materials in this exhibition are being made available for personal and scholarly research use only. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. If you are the rightful copyright holder of an item represented in this exhibition and wishes to have it removed, please submit a request to reference@amistadresearchcenter.org including proof of ownership and clear identification of the work, preferably with URL.
- Repository: Amistad Research Center
- Extent: 1 p.
- Date: 1866-05-01
- Collection: American Missionary Association Archives
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