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Austin Groves Cemetery, 67-2 Summary Report, page 34

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UNION AUTHORmR8 lrt, destitute women and children nt Staven 771 their necessities. Some rude proviKin2nflon *n‘l Naahvii rfpjt cost. commandant. On January 26 laH1 M?v* M,a?"?<'V 1 willed ■>' .. **a the faet. An order was uwied directing tlu h an^ d^T-.jde for them. ( apt. Ralph Hurst, then in “. I'0*1 commandant ........... >>• <” "ml <;;Xr1X*T0'l‘J"?S5 fijjed the Adjutant General visited this p|tt...,i"?wi"?nd I have endeavored to select for officers of the ( ne “ . t d. tat U.S, Colored Infantry, from whom chiefly came tlu sup*.rmt •ta of these camps, men who have had experience ooMesaing a *"?ta as quartermaster und commissary sergeants, 1 Mter knowledge of busin. -s than other applicants. SCHOOLS. Major Stearns' policy was wise ami large. *J‘. and Improve- wlored troops to involve t lie quest ion of ‘ publish and foster *"?of the race, and accordingly he "?n4<^?‘nd among the color"?4 fcflre for education among t he colored tro I Wplo. ,u(>n5 for coloreo A'-^rtlingly, efforts were made to Pr^,lMftior Stearns' ' mont,y was also raiscl 1 *'wlon-d gir** the HRdlUshon a permanent basis asclioo tt|so directed to ^^y^ tho various regiments ' ' .ncjpMl Prt h Hr 'h‘‘ regim<'“t“ pal ! “"'d lmrd-*"?rkinfi fiuls i*1'00 W Uv? • Mitchels, a competent and . (|ninn's AidI A- Tennes-1114,4 *y the I'ennsylvnna ”p/En.st and > cinpk^ taina t 4 *he establishment, of * 'pheiu‘H‘^__??" ^HnNorthern Georgia and -------- WAR OF THE REKllIOH, OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES, ptiihshedbv The Nwionai Hrstoncai Society. Gettysbura PA. 1892. Senes Hl. Vol. IV. Serial No. 125, page 771 34 - (2552)    

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