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== What is in the Collection? == | == What is in the Collection? == | ||
This collection consists of index and images of monthly reports of articles and persons hired by the Bureau's field office for the years 1865 to 1872. The principal name in the index is either of the person employed or the person who owned the article. The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (often called the Freedmen’s Bureau) was created in 1865 at the end of the American Civil War 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. | This collection consists of index and images of field office monthly reports of articles and persons hired by the Bureau's field office for the years 1865 to 1872. The principal name in the index is either of the person employed or the person who owned the article. | ||
The records are from the field office records of the following states. | |||
*Alabama (M1900),roll 7 | |||
*Arkansas (M1901),rolls 6,8,19 | |||
*District of Columbia (M1902),roll 17 | |||
*Georgia (M1903),rolls 21-24, 65, 90 | |||
*Kentucky (M1904),rolls 91,110-111, 119, 124, 131 | |||
*Louisiana (M1905),rolls 15,52, 54, 58, 60, 62, 66, 69, 71, 77, 80, 82, 87, 92, 95, 97, 99 | |||
*Maryland & Delaware(M1906),roll 6 | |||
*Mississippi (M1907),rolls 29, 44, 64 | |||
*North Carolina (M1909),rolls 6, 8, 20, 48 | |||
*South Carolina (M1910),rolls 13, 33, 37, 57, 70, 72, 75, 85, 87 | |||
*Texas (M1912),rolls 7-9, 13 | |||
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (often called the Freedmen’s Bureau) was created in 1865 at the end of the American Civil War 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. | |||
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