Freedmen’s Bureau Tennessee Field Office Personnel

Subordinate Field Offices Name Office Dates Served
Bolivar (for September - October 1868 see Purdy)
Brownsville I. L. Poston (Agent) Assistant Subassistant Commissioner March - April 1867
Brownsville I. L. Poston Assistant Subassistant Commissioner April - September 1867
Charlotte A. P. Nicks Superintendent November 1865 - April 1866
Chattanooga N. B. Lucas Superintendent August 1865 - February 1866
Chattanooga F. E. Trotter Superintendent March 1866 - October 1866
Chattanooga M. H. Church Superintendent October 1866 - April 1867
Chattanooga Samuel Walker (Knoxville) Superintendent April 1867 - October 1867
Chattanooga James M. Johnson (Assistant Subassistant Commissioner) Subassistant Commissioner April 1867 - March 1868
Chattanooga James M. Johnson Subassistant Commissioner March 1868 - November 1868
Chattanooga James M. Johnson (Disbursing Officer For Claims) Subassistant Commissioner November 1868 - February 1869
Chattanooga James Ware (Disbursing Officer for Claims, Cleveland) Subassistant Commissioner February 1869 - May 1869
Clarksville
Cleveland James Ware (Superintendent) Superintendent January 1866 - August 1867
Columbia H. A. Eastman Agent November 1868
Columbia T. H. Reeves Agent November 1868 - April 1869
Columbia John L. Wilson (Disbursing Officer of Claims) Agent May 1869 - March 1871
Decaturville
Dyersburg Superintendent (for Assistant Subassistant Commissioner, 1867 1868, see Trenton)
Franklin George E. Judd Superintendent March - July 1866
Gallatin James M. Hopkins Superintendent March - June 1867
Gallatin Henry C. McQuiddly Superintendent July 1867 - November 1868
Gallatin Isaac Porter (Agent and Disbursing Officer of Claims) Superintendent December 1868 - November 1869
Humboldt (see Trenton)
Jackson G. E. Green (Superintendent) Assistant Subassistant Commissioner January 1867
Jackson Alvin Allen Assistant Subassistant Commissioner March - August 1867
Johnsonville John Enoch Agent August 1867
Johnsonville John L. Wilson Agent November 1867 - April 1869
Jonesboro Herman Bokum Superintendent February - May 1867
Jonesboro Linus T. Squire (Assistant Subassistant Commissioner) Superintendent June - August 1867
Kingston Charles R. Simpson Assistant Subassistant Commissioner October 1867 - January 1868
Kingston Charles R. Simpson (at Shelbyville) Assistant Subassistant Commissioner February 1868
Knoxville Jno. Henry (Special Agent) Subassistant Commissioner August 1865 - July 1866
Knoxville J. W. Groisbick (Superintendent) Subassistant Commissioner July 1866 - September 1866
Knoxville Samuel Walker (Superintendent) Subassistant Commissioner September 1866 - April 1867
Knoxville Samuel Walker Subassistant Commissioner April 1867 - October 1867
Knoxville Samuel Walker Subassistant Commissioner October 1867 - December 1868
Knoxville Samuel Walker (Disbursing Officer of Claims) Subassistant Commissioner December 1868 - February 1871
Knoxville Samuel Walker (Agent) Subassistant Commissioner February 1871 - June 1871
Lebanon S. B. F. C. Barr Agent October 1865 - May 1866
Lebanon W. H. Goodwin Agent August 1866 - April 1867
Lebanon J. M. Tracy Agent April - May 1867
Lebanon K. J. Sample Agent June 1867 - February 1868
McMinnville
Memphis Davis Tillson (Superintendent) Subassistant Commissioner for the Subdistrict of Memphis July - September 1865
Memphis A. T. Reeve (Superintendent) Subassistant Commissioner for the Subdistrict of Memphis December 1865 - January 1866
Memphis Benjamin P. Runkle (Chief Superintendent) Subassistant Commissioner for the Subdistrict of Memphis February - July 1866
Memphis Jno. S. Palmer (Chief Superintendent) Subassistant Commissioner for the Subdistrict of Memphis July 1866 - March 1867
Memphis Jno. S. Palmer Subassistant Commissioner for the Subdistrict of Memphis March 1867 - November 1868
Memphis Jno. S. Palmer (Disbursing Officer for Claims) Subassistant Commissioner for the Subdistrict of Memphis November 1868 - December 1870
Memphis Mark Edwards ( Disbursing Officer for Claims) Subassistant Commissioner for the Subdistrict of Memphis December 1870 - April 1872
Memphis (Subdistrict of Memphis Staff Officers) Assistant Subassistant Commissioner and Agent
Memphis A. T. Reeve Provost Marshal of Freedmen September - October 1867
Memphis T. H. Ward Provost Marshal of Freedmen October - November 1865
Memphis S. S. Garrett Provost Marshal of Freedmen January - March 1866
Memphis Quartermaster
Memphis Rental Agent
Memphis Chief Surgeon
Memphis Special Agent of the Treasury Department
Murfreesboro James M. Tracy Agent August - October 1866
Murfreesboro J. K. Nelson Agent September 1866 - June 1868
Murfreesboro John Dean Agent July - October 1868
Murfreesboro George E. Judd (General Claim Agent) Agent November - December 1868
Murfreesboro George E. Judd (Disbursing Officer of Claims) Agent February - June 1869
Nashville J. R. Lewis (Chief Superintendent) Subassistant Commissioner of the Subdistrict of Nashville July - September 1866
Nashville M. Walsh (Chief Superintendent) Subassistant Commissioner of the Subdistrict of Nashville October 1866 - February 1867
Nashville M. Walsh Subassistant Commissioner of the Subdistrict of Nashville March 1867
Nashville Charles R. Simpson Subassistant Commissioner of the Subdistrict of Nashville March 1868
Nashville George E. Judd Subassistant Commissioner of the Subdistrict of Nashville April - July 1868
Nashville Joseph W. Gilray (Acting Subassistant Commissioner) Subassistant Commissioner of the Subdistrict of Nashville July - November 1868
Nashville Joseph W. Gilray (Inspector) Subassistant Commissioner of the Subdistrict of Nashville December 1868 - January 1869
Nashville John Lawrence Superintendent June 1866 - May 1867
Nashville J. B. Coons Superintendent June 1867 - April 1872
Paris Jesse A. Brown Assistant Subassistant Commissioner May - August 1867
Paris L. T. Squire Assistant Subassistant Commissioner August - September 1867
Pulski George E. Judd (Superintendent) Subassistant Commissioner August 1866 - April 1868
Pulski Charles R. Simpson Subassistant Commissioner April - November 1868
Purdy Fielding Hurst Assistant Subassistant Commissioner January 1867 - January 1868
Purdy T. H. Reeves (Subassistant Commissioner, Boliver) Assistant Subassistant Commissioner September - October 1868
Shelbyville (see Kingston)
Springfield D. D. Holman Superintendent August 1865 - December 1866
Springfield James H. Stickney Superintendent February - March 1867
Springfield Henry W. Barr (Agent) Superintendent March - August 1867
Trenton J. A. Blakemore Assistant Subassistant Commissioner December 1866 - August 1867
Trenton J. M. Tracy Assistant Subassistant Commissioner August - September 1867
Trenton Isaac Porter (Dyersburg) Assistant Subassistant Commissioner September 1867 - April 1868
Trenton Isaac Porter (Humboldt) Assistant Subassistant Commissioner May - October 1868
Wayne John L. Fowler Superintendent March - July 1866
Winchester Frederick A. Loughmiller Agent October 1865 - February 1866