the agents disrespect oliver otis howard and say forget oliver, we're got to keep giving it the widows because their husbands sacrifice their lives and so they become a core group. what i like to think, of course, that they become a really core group it's a how reconstruction in the years after reconstruction there is one agency, fred freedman's bureau agency for everybody but the widows pension bureau just for widows just for widows of you asked soldiers. this is the 49 estates colored infantry. it was in baltimore, the fourth saw. it's pretty popular. they have a picture, but it's also popular because they saw action in the battle of the crater, the battle of petersburg. they just it's and when i say a lot action they were in those battles which means they suffered great losses. this is a flag that some they call this organization, the colored ladies of baltimore created this flag for. the fourth i'm trying to link that to because you are that these are people who support the civil war and support the troops during the civil war specifically black so the pension bureau was designed a