{"id":653,"date":"2016-03-18T17:43:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T17:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=653"},"modified":"2019-02-13T17:44:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T17:44:21","slug":"sca-to-digitize-additional-howard-civil-war-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/sca-to-digitize-additional-howard-civil-war-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"SC&amp;A to digitize additional Howard Civil War materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2086\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2086\" style=\"width: 175px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2086\" src=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/M92s5b4f16-RBHportr-mayberbh.jpeg\" width=\"175\" height=\"232\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rowland Howard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/oliver-otis-howard\/\">Oliver Otis Howard Papers Digitization Project<\/a>\u2019s scope has been expanded to include digitization of the manuscript collections of Howard\u2019s younger brothers, <a href=\"https:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/mss\/chhg.shtml\">Charles Henry Howard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/mss\/rbhg.shtml\">Rowland Bailey Howard<\/a>. Like their brother, the two graduated from Bowdoin (Rowland in 1856, Charles in 1859). Rowland, a Congregational minister, served as a\u00a0member of the U.S. Christian Commission during the Civil War, and later as secretary of the American Peace Society from 1884 until his death. Charles was a bvt. brig. general who saw action at Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg and Chattanooga. He commanded the U.S.C.T. training camp at Beaufort, South Carolina. After the war, Charles\u00a0served in the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, as an inspector of schools for South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and as an assistant commissioner for the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2087\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2087\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2087\" src=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/M90-cartedevisiteCHH.jpeg\" width=\"205\" height=\"222\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Howard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Howard brothers&#8217; papers deepen our understanding of O.O. Howard by showing the other side of the family conversation. When considered\u00a0together, the three collections provide\u00a0a more complete image of a nineteenth century family before, during, and after the Civil War. Like the O.O. Howard Papers, the\u00a0Rowland and Charles Howard\u00a0collections will be made available online through collection finding aids as materials are scanned.<\/p>\n<p>The National Historical Publications and Records Commission generously approved the project&#8217;s scope expansion because the O. O. Howard project is ahead of schedule. Digitization has\u00a0proven significantly more efficient than originally estimated. These additional collections will be digitized\u00a0within the original time frame, with the entire project wrapping up in March 2017.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/oliver-otis-howard\/\">project website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oliver Otis Howard Papers Digitization Project\u2019s scope has been expanded to include digitization of the manuscript collections of Howard\u2019s younger brothers, Charles Henry Howard and Rowland Bailey Howard. Like their brother, the two graduated from Bowdoin (Rowland in 1856, Charles in 1859). Rowland, a Congregational minister, served as a\u00a0member of the U.S. Christian Commission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}