EXPERIENCES AMONG FREEDMEN.

A Soldier Prisoner--Interesting Statistics--Schools--Plantations--
Incidents--Return to Washington--Return Home with Fifteen Orphans
and Fifty Laborers--Change in Orphan Asylum--Mission Work in
Covington and Newport, Kentucky--Mission Work in Memphis, Tennessee--
Uncle Philip a Remarkable Man--Return Home.


CHAPTER XVI.

STATE PUBLIC SCHOOL.

Board of Directors Arrange for Closing the Home--Discouragements--
Relief Comes by Sleigh-loads--Encouragements--Petitions to the State
Legislature to make the Home a State Institution--Petitions Granted,
and the Orphan's Home becomes the "State Public School," located at
Coldwater--Work in State Public School.


CHAPTER XVII.

CHRISTIAN LABOR AND RESULTS.

Work for the Asylum--Again in Washington--Mission Work--Trial of
Henry Wirtz--Inspecting Soup-houses--Incidents connected with Kendal
Green Camp--Peremptory Order of J. R. Shipherd Closing Asylum--
Children Scattered--Returned Home with Authority from American
Missionary Association to Reopen Asylum--Dangerous Fall--Restored to