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== | == Why Should I Look at This Collection? == | ||
[https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10495783 The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands] was established in the War Department in March of 1865. It was commonly called the Freedman’s Bureau and was responsible for the management and supervision of matters relating to refuges, freedmen, and abandoned lands. The Bureau assisted disenfranchised Americans, primarily African Americans, with temporal, legal and financial matters, with the intent of helping people to become self-sufficient. Matters handled included the distributing of food and clothing; operating temporary medical facilities; acquiring back pay, bounty payments, and pensions; facilitating the creation of schools, including the founding of Howard University; reuniting family members; handling marriages; and providing banking services. Banking services were provided by the establishment of the Freedman’s Saving and Trust Company, or Freedman’s Bank. | |||
The Bureau functioned as an agency of the War Department from approximately June 1865 until December 1868. In 1872, the functions of the Bureau were transferred to the Freedmen’s Branch of the Adjutant General’s Office. The Bureau assisted over one million African Americans, including many of the nearly four million emancipated slaves, which was over 25% of the population of former slaves in America.The records identify those who sought help from the Bureau at the end of the Civil War. Most supplicants were freed slaves, some of which were military veterans. In addition, a few veterans who were not African Americans also sought help from the Bureau. Freedmen’s Bureau records are usually reliable, because the records were supplied through first-person correspondence or the recording of a marriage. | |||
''' | ''' Related Article ''' | ||
* | *Sharon Batiste Gillins.''A Window into the lives of black and white ancestors: Freedmen's Bureau field office records.'' NGS Magazine 39 #1 (January-March 2013): 34-38. | ||
== What is in This Collection? == | |||
This collection consists of scanned images of records from National Archives microfilm publication [http://www.archives.gov/research/microfilm/m1906.pdf M1906] Records of the Field Offices for the States of Maryland and Delaware, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands which is part of Record Group 105 Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.The images are generally arranged in the order the records were microfilmed with the records of the Assistant Commissioner who oversaw Bureau operations in the state and state level staff officers; Chief Quartermaster and Disbursing Officer, Claim Division, Complaint Division, first then the local field office records are arranged alphabetically by location and by NARA roll number. | |||
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== | == Collection Content == | ||
[http://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/freedmens-bureau/highlights.html NARA Select Images from Freedmen's Bureau Records] | |||
''' Record Types ''' | |||
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (often called the Freedmen’s Bureau) created many different record types necessary to supervise relief efforts including education, health care, food and clothing, refugee camps, legalization of marriages, employment, labor contracts, and securing back pay, bounty payments and pensions. These records include letters and endorsements sent and received, account books, applications for rations, applications for relief, court records, labor contracts, registers of bounty claimants, registers of complaints, registers of contracts, registers of disbursements, registers of freedmen issued rations, registers of patients, reports, rosters of officers and employees, special and general orders and circulars received, special orders and circulars issued, records relating to claims, court trials, property restoration, and homesteads. | |||
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* | * The following link will provide a description of the record types found in this and other Freedmen's Bureau collections.[[Freedmen's Bureau Record Types]] | ||
* [https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE931610 Officer's Manual. Washington, 1866] | |||
* | ''' Collection Inventory Table ''' | ||
*The inventory will include for each individual collection the National Archives Identifier Number (NAID) and preliminary inventory entry number. | |||
[ | *[https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Maryland_and_Delaware,_Freedmen%27s_Bureau_Field_Office_Records,_Inventory Inventory] | ||
'''Records with Freedmen and Refugee Name''' | '''Records with Freedmen and Refugee Name''' | ||