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Charles Henry Howard
3rd Maine Infantry Regiment
Commands held128th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment
Battles/warsAmerican Civil War
Other workFreedmen's Bureau official, newspaper editor and publisher, school inspector, governmental inspector

Charles Henry Howard (August 28, 1838 – January 27, 1908) was an officer in the

Oliver O. Howard
.

Early life

Howard was born in Leeds, Maine on August 28, 1838.[1] He attended Kent's Hill School and the Yarmouth Academy. He graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in 1859 and then attended the Bangor Theological Seminary for one year before enlisting for the Civil War.

Civil War

Howard enlisted as a private and musician in the

Battles for Chattanooga. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel and assistant inspector general in May 1864, and to colonel
in March 1865.

Howard also commanded the United States Colored Troops training camp at Beaufort, South Carolina; as well as the 128th U.S.C.T. Infantry Regiment. He was promoted to brevet brigadier general on August 15, 1865.

Postbellum career

Howard's grave at Rosehill Cemetery

Following the war, Howard served in the

Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands (the "Freedmen's Bureau"). He also became Inspector of Schools for South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and Assistant Commissioner for the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. Brigadier General Howard as an inspector in the Freedmen's Bureau testified on January 31, 1866, before the U.S. Congress’ Joint Committee on Reconstruction on the condition of and prognosis for the freedmen in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and about the attitudes and intentions of the people toward the United States and toward the freedmen. His remarks were published in the Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction dated January 1, 1866.[2][3] His remarks at the hearing were printed in the March 12, 1866, issue of the New York Tribune.[4]

Howard was for five years the Western Secretary of the American Missionary Association. He also served as editor-in-chief of the Advance, a Congregational journal (1871–1881) and controlling editor of Farm, Field, and Stockman, later Farm, Field, and Fireside (1885–1905). He was briefly Western Editor and Business Manager of the National Tribune (1885). Howard continued to hold special government appointments in his later life including Government Inspector of Indian Agencies under Presidents James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur.

Howard married Mary Catherine Foster of Bangor, Maine, in 1867, and had five sons and two daughters.

He died in Glencoe, Illinois on January 27, 1908, and was buried at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Memorials of Deceased Companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois. Vol. 2. 1912. pp. 475–478. Retrieved January 28, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the first session Thirty-ninth Congress". GenealogyBank.com ($). Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  3. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/fk3tt4fz9s
    . Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  4. ^ "New York Tribune, Monday March 12, 1866, page 9-10. Pages 9-10 bear the date Wednesday, March 14, 1866". GenealogyBank.com ($). Retrieved June 17, 2015.
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