Often called Gideonites, the Yankee teachers who went south to educate the former slaves were a dedicated, idealistic band Whole families devoted thenselves to the work. Three Chase sisters pose here with other schoolteachers at Norfolk, Virginia, in 1865.
A group of Gideonites at Beaufort or Port Royal, as captured by the camera of Samuel Cooley. The southern climate seems to have had a softening effect on the normally dour visgae of the Yankee schoolmarm.
"The Image of War, Volume 3, The embattled Confederacy", page 222 - 223
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