Search

Start Over south caroliniana library Date 1865

44. Members of the House 1865

Collection:
Proclamations, Politics, and Commerce: Broadsides from the Colonial Era to the Present at the South Caroliniana Library
Institution:
University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library

46. The undersigned, a Committee appointed at a Public Meeting held at the Cooper Institute...appeal to their fellow-citizens for a prompt and hearty response to the demand for aid, that comes to us from the thousands of Freedmen gathered by Sherman's Army and others arriving constantly within the Union lines. There are now on Edisto Island alone, several thousand men, women and children in a state of entire destitution, in whose behalf General Saxton has made most pressing appeals to the benevolence of the country

Creator:
National Freedmen's Relief Association
Collection:
Proclamations, Politics, and Commerce: Broadsides from the Colonial Era to the Present at the South Caroliniana Library
Institution:
University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library