Howard, O. H

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Daniel Howard gives this affidavit to Freedman's Bureau subassistant commissioner O.H. Howard in Albany, Georgia on September 25, 1868. In this document Daniel Howard, a twenty-year-old laborer employed by Colonel S. Montgomery in Dougherty County, Georgia, gives his account of his experience in the hands of his white captors following the Camilla Riot, an incident that occurred in Camilla, Georgia on September 19, 1868 when Republicans together with freedmen came to Camilla to hold a political rally and were met with violent opposition from the townspeople. Following the riot Daniel Howard fled to the woods but was forced to return to help white townsmen pick up the dead and wounded freedmen in a wagon and take them back to Camilla. Daniel Howard recalls that he was told by the white townsmen to take the wagon to a pond behind Dr. Dasher' s house to see if there were any survivors there, as the whites had shot twelve freedmen at this pond. Before they reached the pond, however, Daniel Howard escaped.Digital image and transcription created by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001 of a photocopy held by DeSoto Trail Regional Library of an original record held by the National Archives.

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