Ida S. Marshall to Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard, Mar. 7, 1867
- Title
- Ida S. Marshall to Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard, Mar. 7, 1867
- Date
- 03-07-1867
- Creator
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Ida S. Marshall
- Recipient
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Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard
- Description
- Ida S. Marshall writes to Freedmen's Bureau commissioner Oliver O. Howard, hoping that General Howard will help her due to her husband's service to him as a personal servant in South Carolina during the Civil War. Howard did not respond but forwarded her letter to Superintendent of Education John W. Alvord, who wrote to her.
- References
- Rev. John W. Alvord
- Source
- Smithsonian, National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Courtesy of the U. S. National Archives and Records Administration, FamilySearch International, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
- IIIF Manifests
- https://ids.si.edu/ids/manifest/NMAAHC-007675816_00597
- https://ids.si.edu/ids/manifest/NMAAHC-007675816_00598
- https://ids.si.edu/ids/manifest/NMAAHC-007675816_00599
- https://ids.si.edu/ids/manifest/NMAAHC-007675816_00600
- https://ids.si.edu/ids/manifest/NMAAHC-007675816_00601
- https://ids.si.edu/ids/manifest/NMAAHC-007675816_00602
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