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A Union officer in the Reconstruction
Freed persons
Freedmen
Social classes, united states
Reconstruction
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Social classes
Social conditions
Social life and customs
United States
History
Beginning in 1866, John William De Forest served fifteen months as an agent of the Freedmen's Bureau in Greenville, South Carolina. After he left the army, he wrote a series of magazine articles about the bureau's operation as it intersected with the daily lives of freedmen. In 1948 the articles wer…
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