General oliver otis howard biography of mahatma
Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, Major general, United ....
November 8, 1830 – October 26, 1909
Major General Oliver O. Howard, a Medal of Honor recipient, commanded Union troops in both the Eastern and Western Theaters of the American Civil War and served as the only commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction.
Oliver Otis Howard was born on November 30, 1830, at Leeds, Maine.
General oliver otis howard biography of mahatma
He was the oldest of three sons of Rowland Bailey Howard and Eliza Otis Howard. Howard's father, who was a farmer, died in 1840, when Howard was nine years old. His mother remarried two years later.
As a youth, Howard attended Monmouth Academy and North Yarmouth Academy, before enrolling at Bowdoin College in September 1846 at the age of fifteen years.
During Howard's last year at Bowdoin, his uncle, Congressman John Howard, attained an appointment to the United States Military Academy for his nephew. Howard entered the Academy in the autumn of 1850 and graduated four years later, ranking fourth in his class of forty-six cadets.
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