CHAPTER XV.
EXPERIENCES AMONG FREEDMEN.
A Soldier Prisoner—Interesting
Statistics—Schools—Plantations—Incidents—Return to
Washington—Return Home with Fifteen Orphans and Fifty Laborers—Change
in Orphan Asylum—Mission Work in Covington and Newport,
Kentucky—Mission Work in Memphis, Tennessee—Uncle Philip a Remarkable
Man—Return Home.
CHAPTER XVI.
STATE PUBLIC SCHOOL.
Board of Directors Arrange for Closing the
Home—Discouragements—Relief Comes by
Sleigh-loads—Encouragements—Petitions to the State Legislature to
make the Home a State Institution—Petitions Granted, and the Orphan's
Home becomes the "State Public School," located at Coldwater—Work in
State Public School.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHRISTIAN LABOR AND RESULTS.
Work for the Asylum—Again in Washington—Mission Work—Trial of Henry
Wirtz—Inspecting Soup-houses—Incidents connected with Kendal Green
Camp—Peremptory Order of J. R. Shipherd Closing Asylum—Children
Scattered—Returned Home with Authority from American Missionary
Association to Reopen Asylum—Dangerous Fall—Restored to Asylum
Work—Overtaken with Convulsions—Answer to Prayer in being Restored.