A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with 'Statements' of Outrages upon Freedmen in Georgia

A minister addresses a senator with eyewitness statements and a personal account documenting violent intimidation and legal impunity experienced by freed people and Union supporters in Georgia. He describes traveling to Andersonville to minister and teach freedmen, his forced expulsion by secret vigilantes, and argues that public reports understate the scale of outrages. The pamphlet assembles testimony, copies of correspondence, and an appendix, and includes descriptive passages about cemetery decoration at Andersonville, all intended to inform legislators and the public about postwar lawlessness and its effects on freed communities.