Registers of Letters Received
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- Records of the Field Offices for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872
- Records of the Field Offices for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 3: Subordinate Field Offices / 3.11: Augusta (Subassistant Commissioner)
- Archival Repository
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Identifier
- NMAAHC.FB.M1903, File 3.11.4
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Courtesy of the U. S. National Archives and Records Administration, FamilySearch International, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
- Scope and Contents
- The four volumes of registers of letters received, August 1865–December 1868, 1 (146), 2 (143), 3 (144), and 4 (145), are arranged by time period, and there are undated name indexes to volumes 1 (146) and 4 (145), mentioned above. For letters entered in the volumes, see the series of letters received mentioned below. The entries in volume 1 (146) are dated August 1865–February 1867 and are arranged chronologically. For the period August–November 1865, each letter is fully copied in the volume. The entries in volumes 2 (143) and 3 (144), for the period March–December 1867, are arranged alphabetically by initial letter of the surname of the correspondent and thereunder arranged chronologically and numbered. The numbers within each alphabetical division are continued from volume 2 (143) to volume 3 (144). The last entries in volume 3 (144), December 1867–April 1868, and the entries in volume 4 (145), April–December 1868, are arranged chronologically and numbered. There is a new series of numbers for May 1868.
- Collection Restrictions
- Freedmen's Bureau Digital Collection, 1865–1872, is a product of and owned by the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution. Copyright for digital images is retained by the donor, FamilySearch International; permission for commercial use of the digital images may be requested from FamilySearch International, Intellectual Property Office, at: cor-intellectualproperty@ldschurch.org.
- Record ID
- ebl-1533644425439-1533644425650-2
- Metadata Usage
- CC0