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
CHAPTER XII.
MISSION WORK IN NEW ORLEANS.
Mission Work in New Orleans—Soldiers and Prisoners Visited on Ship
Island—Petition of Seventy Soldier Prisoners in behalf of Three
Thousand of their Fellow Prisoners—Appeal in behalf of Ship Island and
Tortugas Prisoners—Mission Work at Plaquemine—Natchez—Capture of a
Rebel steamer—Arrival at Home—Release of the Three Thousand Banished
Union Soldiers
CHAPTER XIII.
FREEDMEN'S AID COMMISSION.
Refugees in Kansas—Children of Want—Afflicted Family—Scenes of
Distress—Agnes Everett—Quantrell's Raid—Poor White
Trash—Hospitals—Supplies Distributed—Refugee Buildings—Orphan
Children—Haviland Home—Thomas Dean a Prisoner—Petition for
Pardon—Pardon Granted—A Southern Clergyman—Mission School—At
Harper's Ferry and Washington.
CHAPTER XIV.
HOME MISSION WORK.
Mission Work and Incidents in
Washington—Murders—Alexandria—Richmond, Virginia—Williamsburg—Fort
Magruder—Yorktown—Suicide—Gloucester Court-house—Fortress
Monroe—Norfolk—Return to Washington—White Woman Whipped.