Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868 [Collection of York Woodward] [Decimalized .01- .18]

15 letters written by a Freedman's Bureau Superintendent, from January 1866 to February 1868. Many are from Abingdon, VA, and reveal the personal responses and official actions of a Pennsylvania veteran who served throughout the Occupied South as a government agent. "Our court met and adjourned till 2 o'clock we disposed of 4 cases I am yet Monarch of all I survey. The folks pass me by on the other side of the way, but if they have any trouble. I am the one they apply to the farmers have been plowing nearly all the week; it looks strange to see people at their farms work in the month of Jan." Includes a CDV of Woodward, published by Washburn, New Orleans and a note with a lock of hair.

GLC#
GLC09327
Type
Header Record
Date
1866-1868
Author/Creator
Woodward, York A., fl. 1866-1868
Title
[Collection of York Woodward] [Decimalized .01- .18]
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
17 items
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
Reconstruction