The Civil War's "Christian General" and His Fight for Racial Equality
by
Gordon L. Weil
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Gen.O.O. Howard, the white man from Maine for whom Howard University, the leading university for African-Americans, was named, was W.T. Sherman's principal deputy in the march across the South and later took charge of the federal government's Reconstruction efforts. Though Reconstruction failed, Howard...