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A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences by Laura S. Haviland
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Island--Petition of Seventy Soldier Prisoners in behalf of Three
Thousand of their Fellow Prisoners--Appeal in behalf of Ship Island
and Tortugas Prisoners--Mission Work at Plaquemine--Natchez--Capture
of a Rebel steamer--Arrival at Home--Release of the Three Thousand
Banished Union Soldiers


CHAPTER XIII.

FREEDMEN'S AID COMMISSION.

Refugees in Kansas--Children of Want--Afflicted Family--Scenes of
Distress--Agnes Everett--Quantrell's Raid--Poor White Trash--
Hospitals--Supplies Distributed--Refugee Buildings--Orphan Children--
Haviland Home--Thomas Dean a Prisoner--Petition for Pardon--Pardon
Granted--A Southern Clergyman--Mission School--At Harper's Ferry and
Washington.


CHAPTER XIV.

HOME MISSION WORK.

Mission Work and Incidents in Washington--Murders--Alexandria--
Richmond, Virginia--Williamsburg--Fort Magruder--Yorktown--
Suicide--Gloucester Court-house--Fortress Monroe--Norfolk--
Return to Washington--White Woman Whipped.


CHAPTER XV.
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