Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents III
3. Illustrations IV
4. Preface V
5. Chronology VII
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1. Early Life in the Buckeye State and Midwestern Beginnings of a Normal School Career 3
8. Chapter 2. Civil War Interruptions: Lieutenant Ogden and the First Wisconsin Cavalry 11
9. Chapter 3. Right Back South: Freedmen's Bureau Educator in Tennessee and Kentucky 24
10. Chapter 4. Establishing Fisk in 1865 and Leading It as School and University 32
11. Chapter 5. Students, Chapels, and Churches 51
12. Chapter 6. Leaving Nashville, 1870 74
13. Chapter 7. Some Good Years, Some Bleak Years: Later Work in Ohio, Washington, D.C., and North Dakota 86
14. Chapter 8. Retirement and Old Age in Minnesota and Washington State 93
15. Appendix I: Selected Poems 95
16. Appendix II: Ogden flyers 103
17. Appendix III: Inaugural Address of John Ogden, A.M. Given at the State Normal School, Winona, Minnesota 106
18. Bibliography 128
19. Index 132