Tag: Southland College and Normal Institute
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Reconstruction Diary Meditations: The Black Orphans of Helena’s Civil War
Saturday, October 20, 1866 The Orphan Asylum is quite pleasantly situated about 9 miles from Helena. There are over fifty children here. John Harvey is here [and] has been teaching, but is now going to take charge of the farming. Mary Stuart had a chill day before yesterday and did not feel able to come…