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Freedmen’s Bureau

  • Freedmen’s Bureau Online – Outrages
  • Freedmen’s Bureau Online – Labor
  • Freedmen’s Bureau Online – Marriages
  • Ancestry – Records of Field Offices
  • Ancestry – Bank Records
  • Minutes of the Freedmen’s Convention
  • M. Walden to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, February 10, 1864 (Appointment of commissioner for Bureau of Freedmen’s Affairs)
  • S. Laws and Statutes, Friday, March 03, 1865 (Copy of law establishing bureau for Freedmen; endorsed by William Hunter)
  • Glimpses at the Freedmen’s Bureau. Issuing rations to the nd sick / from a sketch by our special artist, Jas. E. Taylor.
  • Marriage of a colored soldier at Vicksburg by Chaplain Warren of the Freedmen’s Bureau
  • The Misses Cooke’s school room, Freedman’s Bureold aau, Richmond, Va. / from a sketch by Jas. E. Taylor.
  • W. Storer How to Orlando Brown, August 8, 1865
  • W. Storer How to Orlando Brown, August 22, 1865
  • W. Storer How to R. M. Manly, August 31, 1865
  • W. Storer How to Orlando Brown, September 1, 1865
  • W. Storer How to Orlando Brown, October 5, 1865
  • Circular–Instructions to Assistant Superintendents, December 14, 1865
  • W. Storer How to Orlando Brown, December 11, 1865
  • Nelson Irwin to [John M. Schofield], October 8, 1866
  • Emily Rodney to Orlando Brown, April 2, 1866
  • Oliver O. Howard to T. Torbert, July 18, 1865
  • J. J. DeLamater to Thomas P. Jackson, October 21, 1867
  • North Carolina Black Soldiers to the Freedmen’s Bureau Commissioner
  • Chairman of the Orangeburg, South Carolina, Commission on Contracts to the Freedmen’s Bureau Commissioner, Enclosing a Speech to the Freedpeople; and the Commissioner’s Reply
  • Committee of North Carolina Freedmen to the North Carolina Freedmen’s Bureau Assistant Commissioner, and the Latter’s Reply
  • Tennessee Unionist to the Tennessee Freedmen’s Bureau Assistant Commissioner
  • Cases Adjudicated by the Freedmen’s Bureau Superintendent at Gordonsville, Virginia
  • Committee of Freedmen on Edisto Island, South Carolina, to the Freedmen’s Bureau Commissioner; the Commissioner’s Reply; and the Committee to the President
  • White Tennessean to the Freedmen’s Bureau Superintendent of the Subdistrict of Memphis, Tennessee
  • Broadside by the Freedmen’s Bureau Assistant Superintendent at Shreveport, Louisiana
  • Mississippi Black Soldier to the Freedmen’s Bureau Commissioner
  • Freedmen’s Bureau Agent at Brentsville, Virginia, to the Freedmen’s Bureau Superintendent of the 10th District of Virginia
  • Mississippi Freedman to the Mississippi Freedmen’s Bureau Assistant Commissioner
  • Freedmen’s Bureau Acting Subassistant Commissioner for Johns, James, Wadmalaw, and Morris Islands, South Carolina, to the Headquarters of the South Carolina Freedmen’s Bureau Assistant Commissioner
  • Proceedings in a Case between an Alabama Freedwoman and Her Employer’s Son
  • Freedmen’s Bureau Officer in Mississippi to the Headquarters of the Mississippi Freedmen’s Bureau Assistant Commissioner
  • Georgia Planter to the Freedmen’s Bureau Acting Assistant Commissioner for Georgia
  • South Carolina Freedmen to the Freedmen’s Bureau Acting Assistant Commissioner for the Western District of South Carolina; and Freedmen’s Bureau Surgeon at Orangeburg and Columbia, South Carolina, to the South Carolina Freedmen’s Bureau Surgeon-in-Chief
  • Statement of a Tennessee Freedman, and Proceedings in a Case against the Freedman’s Employer
  • Virginia Black Hucksters to the Freedmen’s Bureau Commissioner, Enclosing a Receipt for Rental of a Huckster Stall
  • Affidavit of an Arkansas Freedman
  • Georgia Freedman to the Freedmen’s Bureau Commissioner
  • Report of a Speech by a Virginia Freedman
  • Freedmen’s Bureau Special Agent for Jackson County, Florida, to the Headquarters of the Florida Freedmen’s Bureau Assistant Commissioner
  • Testimony by an Alabama Freedman before the Southern Claims Commission
  • Testimony by a Georgia Freedman before the Southern Claims Commission

Further resources can be found at:

  • Freedmen’s Bureau Online
  • National Archives Freedmen’s Bureau Records
  • Discover Freedmen
  • Freedmen and Southern Society Project
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