DOC The Peninsular War Services of General Sir George Allen Madden by Dr Mark S Thompson in History

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Far from the typical view of Reconstruction in the American South; many well-meaning Yankees went to Dixie after the war to offer help. Mary Ames was one of them. The guns had barely silenced when in May of 1865; wealthy young Northerners; Mary Ames and Emily Bliss; volunteered with the Freedman's Bureau to teach newly emancipated blacks. This diary is the story of that journey. They had quite an adventure; living in abandoned plantation mansions and meeting the leaders of the Freedmen's Bureau; including General O.O. Howard.