1.    Who is the author of this source? Who is the intended audience? Do you find this source to be reliable?

2.    What education was offered to newly freed children and adults in Camp Holly Spring (page 2)? Based on the rest of the report, were schools common in freedmen’s camps?

3.    What injustices does Yeatman point out with regards to freedmen’s labor (page 4-5)? What is Yeatman’s attitude toward these injustices?

4.    How does Yeatman describe the free black soldiers and their leaders (pages 5-6)?

5.    As in Document 1, Yeatman comments on the freedmen’s work ethic and eagerness to work hard on farms, as soldiers, and in other trades (page 10). Why do the authors of these two reports emphasize this point?

6.    What conditions does Yeatman describe at Paw Paw Island, Young’s Point, and Natchez (pages 11-13)? Are these conditions unique to these three camps?

7.    Yeatman ends his report with a strongly worded criticism of the unfair pay and work requirements for freedmen, and argues, “these people should be educated up to, and made to realize, their new condition” (page 16). To what extent might African Americans of this time period agree or disagree with this statement?