white unionist refugees and the surviving records for virginia. we don't know as much about clothing. the only area of the state where i can find any information came from southwest virginia. not a lot of black people living there in the 1860's. the bureau not provide a welfare for the idle. hereafter no destitute rations be issued to any able-bodied man and in such cases he must provide undoubted evidence with destitution. he cannot procure any sort of employment which was underlined or to partially support them. the freedmen's community at yorktown during the summer of 1865, the bureau agent stocked rations to fannie brown and her two-year-old daughter, because fannie wouldn't work. in october 1866 nelson erwin wrote to john scofield, the head of the potomac military district, we gave to the rich white man our best years, our strength, our youth, our sweat. now that we are free we get meanness, tyranny, and injustice. and now instruct the offices of the bureau and let them insist on justice. some of our men are in a state of perpetual terror. if

a lot of information about the distribution of rations for friedman and white unionist refugees in virginia. but we don't know as much about .lothing the only area of the state i could find any information came whichouthwest virginia, is sort of strange, as many of you may know. not a lot of white people are living out there in the 1860's. nevertheless the bureau did not provide welfare to the idol. word came in july of 1865 and general howard directed that hereafter no destitute rations be issued to any able-bodied man thomas has a family of his own and in such cases you must provide undoubted evidence of their destitution. he cannot procure any sort of employment underlined by which to partially support, also underlined, them. in slab town, the friedman community at yorktown during the summer of agencies to five, the bureau agents stopped rations to 21-year-old fanny brown and her two-year-old daughter because fanny, he wrote, wouldn't work. erwinober of 1866 nelson road to major general john scofield, the head of the potomac military district. we gave to the rich white manner best years.

unionists. winfield scott organizes a military parade right outside the hotel at 14th and pennsylvania and march around the whiteouse and back. tyler, at brown's hotel, reads about it in the newspaper and recognizes what it is -- intimidation against the south and those who were unionists, and he contacts president buchanan the night before. you must cancel george washington's birthday. . buchanan, who is nervous about everything, who says yes, i will cancel it. the parade canceled but the crowds are gathered. the federal units are marched back to their barracks and the d.c. militia units go ahead and do the best march they can do. congressman sickles hears about this and is enraged. he storms over to the white house and looking for the war secretary finds president buchanan. he says, this is a disgrace. you must resurrect the parade to honor george washington. oh, i don't know. president buchanan. he put that word they will have a parade that afternoon. [laughter] the marines were too far away at their barracks over and southeast. they reassembled and paraded around the white house. president buchanan, winfield