Historical Journal: The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Gideonites

Historical Journal: The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson

11/24/1862

Historical Journal

Google Books provides a November 24, 1862 journal entry included in the book, "The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson," on Higginson's observations of the Gideonites- a group of Northern abolitionist missionaries and teachers sent to assist in the Port Royal Experiment in the South Carolina Sea Islands during and after the Civil War. Higginson describes conflict between the Gideonites and the Union Army.

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