Excerpt from Report of Brevet Major General O. O. Howard: Commissioner Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, to the Secretary of War, October 20, 1869In addition 111 the sick, many others 11 ere destitute and required aid. 111 relie1 11 this destitution without encou aging pauperism and idleness was 11 difficult problem. I round, when 1 took charge of this work, that very large issues of rations and clothing were being made by 1111111111111' 1111111111 1nde1s. The number of persons relieved bv the Commissary de partment in the month 01 August, 1805, was one hundred and t11it1 eight thousand one hundred and and many treedmen and poor whites seemed to expect permanent support from this source. 3111 in the succeeding month, when the Bureau had been sufficiently or ganize d to take the entire supervision of this gratuitous relief, bv 11 rigid e\111111nation ot ever1 applicant, and b1 the rejection of all who could support themselves 111 labor, the number assisted was reduced to se1 thousand nine hundred and fifty-one, And from that 11111111. Constant reduction was made, so that the average number of raw tions issued per day during the vear endin11 September was twentv nine thous1nd eight hundred and nineteen, and during the 1 ear ending September 1 1867, eleven thousand six hundred and fift 1' eight 111 this district and throughout all the southern States.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.