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. 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 Asylum Work--Overtaken with Convulsions--Answer to Prayer in being Restored. CHAPTER XVIII. PRESENT CONDITION OF THE FREEDMEN. Kansas Freedmen's Relief Association--Testimony of Perry Bradley--Incidents--Persecutions--Prof. Greener--Colored Republicans--Further Testimony--Negro Woman Killed--Letter from the South--Atrocities--Refugees in Kansas--Bull-dosing--Kansas Overfull--Protection Needed--Michael Walsh--Silver Linings. CHAPTER XIX. PROSPECTS OF THE FREEDMEN. Supplies Furnished--Relief Association at Work--Northern Outrages--Prudence Crandall--Colored Schools--Freedmen's Aid Schools--Industrial and Agricultural Institute. ILLUSTRATIONS. STEEL PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR THE SLAVEHOLDERS' THREATS. SLAVE IRONS. CLARK UNIVERSITY FOR FREEDMEN (CHRISMAN HALL). MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE. CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE. At the earnest solicitation of many dear friends I have consented to leave on record some of the incidents that have fallen under my personal observation during three-score and ten years. My father, Daniel Smith, was a native of Eastern New York, and for many years an approved minister in the Society of Friends. He was a man of ability and influence, of clear perceptions, and strong reasoning powers. My mother, Sene Blancher, was from Vermont; was of a gentler turn, and of a quiet spirit, benevolent and kind to all, and much beloved by all who knew her, and was for many years an elder in the same Society. It is due to my parents to say, if I have been instrumental, through the grace of God, to bless his poor and lowly of earth, by adapting means to ends in relieving suffering humanity, it is largely owing to their influence.