Weekly Reports on Daily Inspections of Headquarters Buildings at Howard University, December 1868–February 1870

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Weekly Reports on Daily Inspections of Headquarters Buildings at Howard University, December 1868–February 1870

1868-1870

This series consists of narrative reports, most of which state whether the building was well policed and whether messengers and watchmen were attentive to duty. The reports were made by Lt. John H. McBlair, an aide-de-camp.

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SNAC Resource ID: 11675127

National Archives at Washington, D.C

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Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. Tracing its history to 1867, from its outset Howard has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. The institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero who was both the founder of the university and, at the time, commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. The U.S. Congress chartered Howard on March 2, 1867 and much of its early funding came from endow...