CHAPTER XI.
SANITARY WORK.
Organized Freedmen's Relief Association—Solicit Supplies—Academic
Year Opened for 1863-4—Sister Backus and Self leave for Fields of
Suffering—Incidents on the Way—Mission Work in Natchez,
Mississippi—Four Hundred Slaves Hanged and otherwise Tortured—Visit
to the Calaboose—Mission Work in Baton Rouge—Arrival at New
Orleans—Sketch of Persecutions