At the end of the Civil War of 1865, a body was organized to oversee the likely of the newly mass of freedmen under the Congressional Act passed establishing the Bureau for Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. The Freedmen’s Bureau was directed with the task of assisting the newly emancipated people as best as they could by providing care, land, labour, education, integration of the freedmen into American society with the assurance of a sense of protection from the Southern Whites. Oliver O. Howard was tasked with the difficult and successful running of the Freedmen’s Bureau as of 1865. To kick in motion his plans, he first developed the Division of Records, responsibility of maintaining, tracking, and disseminating all general correspondence
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These men was known as Christian General, evangelical Protestants as they were to assist in the creation of a Christian commonwealth in America inclusive of the freedmen (McFeely 1994). Even though one-by-one Johnson forced Howard to remove them from their position in response to real or perceived resistance to his Reconstruction goals (McFeely …show more content…
On that note, the Bureau wanted to use land that was confiscated or abandoned to the aid of loyal refugees and freedmen. However, with President John being at the helm of the decision, many of the lands went back to the once rebellious whites. In first attempting to rectify the problem, Howard directed land being cultivated by the freedmen to remain in the freedmen‘s hands until the crops were harvested unless full and just compensation be made (Foner 1990). With that said, Howard made his stance on the issue as former owners are to be accountable for their actions, with the application for the restoration of their lands, by this class of persons, will in no case be entertained by any military authority. On 29 May 1865 however, President Johnson issued his Proclamation of Amnesty excusing the rebel‘s actions and restoring all property to those meeting the requirements to gain a
These men was known as Christian General, evangelical Protestants as they were to assist in the creation of a Christian commonwealth in America inclusive of the freedmen (McFeely 1994). Even though one-by-one Johnson forced Howard to remove them from their position in response to real or perceived resistance to his Reconstruction goals (McFeely …show more content…
On that note, the Bureau wanted to use land that was confiscated or abandoned to the aid of loyal refugees and freedmen. However, with President John being at the helm of the decision, many of the lands went back to the once rebellious whites. In first attempting to rectify the problem, Howard directed land being cultivated by the freedmen to remain in the freedmen‘s hands until the crops were harvested unless full and just compensation be made (Foner 1990). With that said, Howard made his stance on the issue as former owners are to be accountable for their actions, with the application for the restoration of their lands, by this class of persons, will in no case be entertained by any military authority. On 29 May 1865 however, President Johnson issued his Proclamation of Amnesty excusing the rebel‘s actions and restoring all property to those meeting the requirements to gain a