The William Henry Letters

I was then (and am now) much interested in the Freedmen. While serving in the Army of the Potomac, I had seen a good deal of them and was connected with a hospital in Washington at the time when they were pouring into that city, hungry and sick and half-naked. I belonged to several Freedmen's Societies and had just then pledged myself to beg a barrelful of old clothing to send South.