O.O. Howard and the Freedmen’s Bureau

The Vancouver Barracks Military Association presents author and former journalist Aaron C. Jones for a program on “O.O. Howard and the Freedmen’s Bureau.” General Oliver Otis Howard (1830-1909) commanded U.S. Army forces in the Pacific Northwest in the 1870s after serving in the Union Army during the Civil War. Later, he was head of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Washington, D.C., created by Congress to assist formerly enslaved people transitioning to freedom. Jones will share research about Howard’s tenure at the Bureau collected for the upcoming biography, “Oliver Otis Howard and the Great Task.” The program is free but reserve a seat by emailing jd*****@********il.com.

Above image: Major Gen. Oliver O. Howard, 8/13/1864, Harper’s Weekly