They had for months protected the freedmen of this entire region from the hostility of their old masters; and but for their presence, the extensive mission schools carried on at another part of the estates inclosed by the bend, must have been abandoned.
Reid highlights the protective role of soldiers for freedmen in the post-war South.
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