Mississippi Field Offices, Subordinate Field Offices: Jackson (Acting Asst. Comm.), Unregistered Letters Received, Part 2

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The Bureau of Refugees, Freemen, and Abandoned Lands, often referred to as the Freedmen’s Bureau, was established on March 3, 1865. The duties of the Freedmen’s Bureau included supervision of all affairs relating to refugees, freedmen, and the custody of abandoned lands and property. These documents come from the Records of the Field Offices for the State of Mississippi, Series 3.21: Subordinate Field Offices: Jackson (Acting Assistant Commissioner of the Northern District). Please help us transcribe these records to learn more about the experiences of formerly enslaved men and women in Mississippi during the Reconstruction Era. Unbound unregistered letters received, July 1865–February 1866, are arranged chronologically by the date received.

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