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The United States government decided to follow a mostly hands-off policy toward the approximately three million freed slaves in the years immediately following the Civil War. The Freedmen's Bureau, created in 1865, was a limited exception to this policy. The Bureau, under Union General Oliver O. Howard, covered "all subjects relating to refugees and freedmen." Although it provided much-needed food and educational opportunities to former slaves, the Freedman's Bureau was a relatively weak, understaffed organization. It could do little to protect freedmen's rights during Southern Reconstruction (1865-1877). Major Samuel Willard Saxton (1829-1933) of Deerfield, Massachusetts, was one the soldiers General Howard retained to serve in the Freedmen's Bureau after the war. Saxton, named for Deerfield's anti-slavery minister Samuel Willard (1776-1859), served in the Bureau until 1886.

 

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Samuel Willard Saxton (1829-1933)

photographer   C. Seaver Jr.
date   1864
location   Southern US
height   4.0"
width   2.5"
item type   Photograph/Photograph - Carte de Visite
accession #   #1996.12.0337


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Coat of Major Samuel Willard Saxton (1829-1933)

Civil War Monument

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