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Miscellaneous Records — Cynthiana (Superintendent)

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Unbound miscellaneous records, August–October 1866, are arranged by type of record. The series includes testimonies taken at cases tried August 1866 and marriage licenses (October 1866).

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1904, File 4.8.2
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Miscellaneous Records — Danville (Superintendent and Subassistant Commissioner)

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Unbound miscellaneous records, March 1862–June 1868, are arranged by type of record. The series includes orders received (March 1866–March 1868); monthly operations reports (July 1866–June 1868); monthly school reports (May 1866–June 1868); monthly reports…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1904, File 4.9.5
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Miscellaneous Records — Darlington (Acting Assistant Commissioner)

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Unbound miscellaneous records, September 1865–December 1867, are arranged by type of record. The series consists of rosters, indentures of apprenticeship, oaths, accounts, quarterly statements, and monthly reports of lands.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, File 5.21.16
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Miscellaneous Records — Davis Bend

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Unbound miscellaneous records, 1865–1866, are arranged by type of record. The series consists of monthly reports of attendants, receipt rolls, reports of persons and articles hired, marriage certificates, and special orders.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, File 3.8.5
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Miscellaneous Records — Demopolis

Jan. 1866–Nov. 1868

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Unbound miscellaneous records, January 1866–November 1868, are arranged by subject and thereunder chronologically. The series includes an opinion of Clarke and Lyon in Freedmen v. Ridgway, leases for a plantation to be used as an asylum, a list of…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1900, File 4.5.5
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Miscellaneous Records — Disbursing Officer

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Unbound miscellaneous records, April 1865–October 1868, are arranged by type of record. Included are vouchers, monthly property returns and returns of stores received, monthly reports, and inventories of fixtures.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1911, File 2.2.5
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Miscellaneous Records — Disbursing Officer and Quartermaster

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Unbound miscellaneous records, August 1865–April 1866 and April 1867 and February 1868, are arranged by type of record. The series includes reports of persons and articles hired, receipts for house rent, receipts for medical and hospital supplies, and…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, File 2.3.5
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Miscellaneous Records — Donaldsonville (Agent)

1865–66

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Unbound miscellaneous records, 1865–66, are arranged by type of record. Included are inspection reports, accounts current, bills of lading, returns of school property, reports of persons and articles hired, and payrolls of laborers employed.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.16.6
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Miscellaneous Records — Donaldsonville (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

1866–68

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Unbound miscellaneous records, 1866–68, are arranged by type of record. Included are inspection reports, receipts relating to school property, reports of persons and articles hired, bills of lading, accounts current, papers relating to the issuance of…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.17.12
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Miscellaneous Records — Drummondtown (Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

1864–68

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Unbound miscellaneous records, 1864–68, are arranged by type of record. The records include special orders and circulars received, bills and receipts, applications for bounty under General Orders 90, and complaints and bonds.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.24.11
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Miscellaneous Records — East Pascagoula (Subassistant Commissiner)

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Unbound miscellaneous records (1868) are arranged by type of record. The series consists of complaints, affidavits, and bills of lading.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, File 3.11.6
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Miscellaneous Records — Fayetteville (Subassistant Commissioner)

1865–68

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Unbound miscellaneous records, 1865–68, are arranged by type of record. The series consists of lists of destitutes, quartermaster returns, bills of lading, receipts, abstracts, requisitions, and two lists of births, marriages, and deaths.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, File 4.9.15
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Miscellaneous Records — Fort Leavenworth, KS (Disbursing Officer)

1874 and 1875

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Unbound miscellaneous records, 1874 and 1875, are arranged by type of record and thereunder chronologically. The records include reports of persons and articles hired, returns of public property, weekly reports of payments, and accounts current. They also…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M2029, File 1.6.8
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Miscellaneous Records — Fort Monroe (Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

1866 and 1867

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Unbound miscellaneous records, 1866 and 1867, are arranged by type of record. Included are claims records and lists of names of inmates and attendants at Freedmen's Hospital, Hampton.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.66.11
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Miscellaneous Records — Fort Monroe (Department of Negro Affairs, 1863–65) Departments of Virginia and North Carolina

1863, 1864, and 1865

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Unbound miscellaneous records, 1863, 1864, and 1865, are arranged by type of record. The records include accounting records, census returns, ration reports, court records, and miscellaneous lists.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.64.8
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Miscellaneous Records — Fort Monroe, VA (Disbursing Officer)

1873–1874

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Unbound miscellaneous records, 1873 and 1874, are arranged by type of record. They consist mainly of affidavits, deposit slips and check stubs.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M2029, File 1.7.6
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Miscellaneous Records — Fort Smith (Sebastian County)

1865–67

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Unbound miscellaneous records, 1865–67, are arranged by type of record and thereunder chronologically. Included are retained copies of receipts for clothing (January–October 1867), monthly returns of quartermaster stores (October 1866–October 1867),…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1901, File 3.7.8
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Miscellaneous Records — Franklin (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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Unbound miscellaneous records, January 1865–May 1868, are arranged by type of record. The records include invoices (January 1865–August 1866); lists of property (October 1865–January 1866); abstracts (September 1865–February 1868); and a list of clothing…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.20.26
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Miscellaneous Records — Galveston (Subassistant Commissioner)

Dec. 1866–Dec. 1868

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Unbound miscellaneous records, December 1866–December 1868, are arranged generally by type of record. This series includes reports of persons and articles hired, monthly returns of stores, notes and receipts, leases, indentures, contracts, bonds, and court…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1912, File 4.17.4
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Miscellaneous Records — Georgetown (Agent)

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Unbound miscellaneous records, June 1866–June 1867, are arranged by type of record. The series includes statistical reports of operations (June 1866–June 1867); reports of receipts and expenditures (June 1866–January 1867); monthly school reports by…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1904, File 4.11.2
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Miscellaneous Records — Georgetown (Hospital)

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Unbound miscellaneous records, 1866–68, are arranged by type of record. The series consists of bills of lading, reports of persons and articles hired, statements of hospital funds, reports of sick and wounded freedmen, ration returns, receipt rolls of…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, File 5.25.10
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Miscellaneous Records — Georgetown (Subassistant Commissioner)

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Unbound miscellaneous records, October 1865–November 1867, are arranged by type of record. The series consists of receipt rolls of hired men, indentures of apprenticeship, bills of lading, reports of abandoned property, property restoration orders,…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, File 5.24.13
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Miscellaneous Records — Goldsboro (Subassistant Commissioner)

1865–67

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Unbound miscellaneous records, 1865–67, are arranged by type of record. Included are freedmen's accounts with planters, labor contracts, and papers relating to complaints.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, File 4.12.11
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Miscellaneous Records — Goodman (Agent)

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Unbound miscellaneous records, 1865–1868, are arranged by type of record. These records include reports of civilian employees, statements and affidavits, a list of pauper blacks, and a marriage license.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, File 3.14.3
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