Rev R. L. Dabney’s Letter To The Head Of The Freedmen’s Bureau – Part 1 of 4, December 2, 2020
Dear Ms. Lunelle, It is a well-known fact that the Honorable General Thomas Stonewall Jackson befriended the African people; he and his wife opening up the doors of their home and church to teach the Africans how to read and write when it was against the law to do so. General Jackson's Chaplain, the Honorable Rev. R.L. Dabney from Prince Edward County, Virginia, was well renowned as a southern minister before the [...]