[27] Botume, First Days among the Contrabands, p. 64.
[28] The Nation, vol. I (1865), p. 746.
[29] N. E. Freedman's Aid Society, Annual Report, 1864, p. 15.
[30] Senate Executive Documents, 38 Cong., 1 Sess., vol. I, No. 1, pp. 2-6.
[31] House Executive Documents, 41 Cong., 2 Sess., vol. VI, No. 142, p. 11.
[32] Ibid., 39 Cong., 1 Sess., vol. VII, No. 11, p. 49.
[33] National Freedman, Oct., 1865, p. 300.
[34] Howard, Autobiography, vol. II, p. 221.
[35] Statutes at Large, XIV, p. 176.
[36] Ibid., p. 486.