Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis), 1830-1909
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U.S. Army officer, 1854-1894; commissioner, Freedman's Bureau, 1865-1872; first president, Howard University, 1869-1874.
Union Army career officer; defeated at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg; b. in Leeds, Me.; retired in 1894 and afterwards became president of Howard University, Washington, D.C.; d. in Burlington, Vt.
Union Army general in the U.S. Civil War.
Howard was a U.S. Army officer, 1854-1894; commissioner of Freedmen's Bureau, 1865-1872; first president of Howard University, 1869-1874; and one of founders of Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tennessee.
Civil War general; founder of Howard University.
American army officer.
Army officer.
O. O. Howard, United States Army Officer, was born and educated in Maine. After graduating from West Point in 1855, he fought the Seminoles in Florida. During the Civil War, he rose to the rank of Brigadier General. When the war ended, he was appointed Commissioner of the newly created Freedmen's Bureau. After working to help the newly freed slaves, he became president of Howard University. He then became commander of the Department of the Columbia from 1874-81. Howard negotiated with the Nez Perce, but in 1876 he went to the field himself and escalated the army forces. In 1886 he became a major general and was assigned to command the Division of the East, where he remained until he retired in 1894.
Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, 1865-1872.
Oliver Otis Howard was born in Leeds, Kennebec County, Maine, in 1830. A West Point graduate and U.S. Army officer; co-founder of Howard University, in Washington, D.C., and many others, including Lincoln Memorial University at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. As head of the Freedmen's Bureau, he was a champion of the ex-slave. Engaged in two wars against American Indians: Nez Perce War (1877) and Piute and Bannock War (1878).
Army officer and educator; founder and president of Howard University; born in Maine; died in Vermont.
U.S. Army general.
Howard, Oliver Otis, 1830-1909
Rank : Maj. Gen.
Regiment : United States. Army--Corps, XI (1862-1865)
Oliver Otis Howard's war record is one of notoriously mixed success. A graduate of West Point with the class of 1854, Howard was teaching math at the Academy when he resigned his appointment to assume field command with the 3rd Maine Infantry in June, 1861. By September, he was promoted to Brigadier General, assuming command of the 2nd Division, II Corps during the Peninsular Campaign. Twice wounded at Fair Oaks, Howard lost his right arm, but continued in the service, and by November, 1862, he had been promoted to Major General commanding II Corps (January and February, 1863) and XI Corps (April-September, 1863).
During the period of Howard's command, and particularly while in Virginia, XI Corps was widely considered one of the least reliable and least effective Corps in the Army of the Potomac. Whether this reputation is deserved or not, at Chancellorsville, Howard was widely accused of having failed to capitalize on Lee's famous decision to split his forces and at Gettysburg, the collapse of XI Corps on the first day of fighting at Cemetery Hill resulted in over 4,000 men being captured, with many more straggling. In September, Howard's Corps was ordered to join the Army of the Cumberland, and remained under Sherman's command through the victorious Atlanta Campaign and the March to the Sea and March through the Carolina's.
Howard is as well remembered for his post-war activities as he is for his war-time exploits. Following work with the Freedmen's Bureau, he assisted in the founding of Howard University and became its president for five years. He later returned to active duty with the regular army, where he took part in suppressing Indian resistance in the plains states and southwest.
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United States
United States. Army
Bannock Indians
Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863
Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
Gettysburg Campaign, 1863
Indians of North America
Lookout Mountain, Battle of, Tenn., 1863
Missionary Ridge, Battle of, Tenn., 1863
Nez Percé Indians
Nez Percé Indians
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Wauhatchie, Battle of, Wauhatchie, Tenn., 1863
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