This organization's leader for the Greenville area was the man who coined the phrase "great American novel," John DeForest.
This organization's leader for the Greenville area was the man who coined the phrase "great American novel," John DeForest. Created at the urging of Josephine Griffing and Edward Pierce, its operations followed the "Port Royal plan." Corruption by its local agents led to the 1874 court-martial of its commander, but had already of a new university in Washington and about a thousand other schools, the former named for that commander. For ten points, name this agency led by General Oliver Otis Howard which provided aid to former slaves during Reconstruction.
This organization's leader for the Greenville area was the man who coined the phrase "great American novel," John DeForest.
the {Bureau of} Refugees, {Freedmen}, and Abandoned Lands