Charles Henry Howard

Following the war, Howard served in the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands (the "Freedmen's Bureau"). He also became Inspector of Schools for South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and Assistant Commissioner for the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. Brigadier General Howard, as an inspector in the Freedmen's Bureau, testified on January 31, 1866, before the U.S. Congress’ Joint Committee on Reconstruction on the condition of and prognosis for the freedmen in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and about the attitudes and intentions of the people toward the United States and toward the freedmen. His remarks were published in the Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction dated January 1, 1866.^[2][3] His remarks at the hearing were printed in the March 12, 1866, issue of the New York Tribune.^[4]

Howard was for five years the Western Secretary of the American Missionary Association. He also served as editor-in-chief of the Advance, a Congregational journal (1871–1881) and controlling editor of Farm, Field, and Stockman, later Farm, Field, and Fireside (1885–1905). He was briefly Western Editor and Business Manager of the National Tribune (1885). Howard continued to hold special government appointments in his later life, including Government Inspector of Indian Agencies under Presidents James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur.

Howard married Mary Catherine Foster of Bangor, Maine in 1867 and had five sons and two daughters.

He died in Glencoe, Illinois on January 27, 1908, and was buried at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.^[1]

• Oliver Otis Howard (brother)

• Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
• Charles Henry Howard Collection, Bowdoin College, website accessed May 16, 2009.