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Miscellaneous Registers — Yorktown (Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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The single volume of miscellaneous registers, ca. 1865 (508), is arranged by type of register. They are mainly registers of freedmen drawing rations and registers of payments to field hands.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.99.9
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Miscellaneous Reports

Aug. 1865–Sept. 1868

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Unbound miscellaneous reports dated August 1865–September 1868 are arranged chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 3.2.9
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Miscellaneous Reports — Aiken (Subassistant Commissioner – Edgefield District)

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Unbound miscellaneous reports, 1866–68, are arranged by type of report. The series consists of reports of persons and articles hired, outrages, contracts, and complaints.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, File 5.3.10
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Miscellaneous Reports and a Few Contracts — City Point (Prince George County, Assistant Superintendent)

July 1865–Oct. 1866

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Unbound miscellaneous reports and a few contracts, July 1865–October 1866, are arranged chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.16.4
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Miscellaneous Reports and Accounting Records

Jan.–June 1868

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Cataloged as “Miscellaneous Reports and Accounting Records”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, Item 2.2.6.1
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Miscellaneous Reports and Accounting Records — Commissary of Subsistence

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Unbound miscellaneous reports and accounting records are dated January 1868–November 1869 and arranged chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 2.2.6
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Miscellaneous Reports and Papers — Other Records

July 1866–Oct. 1868

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Unbound miscellaneous reports and papers, July 1866–October 1868, are arranged chronologically. The series includes a copy of the apprenticeship law of Delaware, a report by the disbursing officer of moneys received and disbursed in December 1866, and a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1906, File 2.4.4
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Miscellaneous Reports and Returns — Alexandria (Superintendent)

1866–68

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Unbound miscellaneous reports and returns, 1866–68, are arranged chronologically. Included are reports of officers and enlisted men on duty, civilian agents, discharged men, rations, land, and forage; returns of public animals; estimates of rations and…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.2.21
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Miscellaneous Reports — Charleston (Subassistant Commissioner – 6th Subdistrict)

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Unbound miscellaneous reports, July 1867–December 1868, are arranged by type of report. Included are returns of provisions, reports of persons and articles hired, and monthly reports of the number of persons issued rations, clothing, and medicines.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, File 5.12.5
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Miscellaneous Reports — Charlotte (Subassistant Commissioner)

1866–68

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Unbound miscellaneous reports, 1866–68, are arranged by type of report. The series consists of intelligence reports, and reports of outrages, arrests, sanitation, courts, and schools.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, File 4.3.10
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Miscellaneous Reports — Columbia (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

May 1867–Apr. 1868

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Unbound miscellaneous reports, May 1867–April 1868, are arranged by type of record. Included are reports showing numbers, sex, and age of "Unfortunates," May 1867, and retained monthly education reports of the agent, February–April 1868.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.13.5
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Miscellaneous Reports — Concord

1867

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Unbound miscellaneous reports, 1867, are arranged by type of report. The series consists of intelligence reports, and reports of outrages, arrests, and courts.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, File 4.5.6
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Miscellaneous Reports — Drummondtown (Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

1865–68

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Unbound miscellaneous reports, 1865–68, are arranged by type of report. The records include monthly land reports, school reports, account reports, and reports relating to Freedmen Bureau funds.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.24.12
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Miscellaneous Reports — Edenton (Subassistant Commissioner)

1867–68

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Unbound miscellaneous reports, 1867–68, are arranged by type of report. The series consists of reports of operations, rations, outrages, persons employed, a court, sanitation, indentures, and money collected.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, File 4.6.8
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Miscellaneous Reports — Elizabeth City (Agent)

1867–68

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Unbound miscellaneous reports, 1867–68, are arranged by type of report. The series consists of reports of rations, outrages, arrests, persons employed, sanitation, indentures, claims, and schools.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, File 4.7.6
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Miscellaneous Reports — Elizabethtown

1866

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Unbound miscellaneous reports, 1866, are arranged by type of report. The series consists of reports of operations, sanitation, outrages, arrests, and money received.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, File 4.8.2
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Miscellaneous Reports — Fayetteville (Subassistant Commissioner)

1865–68

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Unbound miscellaneous reports, 1865–68, are arranged by type of report. There are reports of rations, officers and employees, arrests, sanitation, courts, schools, persons and articles hired, contracts, and indentures and apprentices.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, File 4.9.12
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Miscellaneous Reports — Fort Monroe (Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

Aug. 1866–Feb. 1868

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Unbound miscellaneous reports, August 1866–February 1868, are arranged chronologically. Included are officers' reports, school reports, estimates, ration reports, transportation reports, and reports of numbers of indigents entitled to rations.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.66.7
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Miscellaneous Reports — Franklinton (Assistant Commissioner)

1867

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Unbound miscellaneous reports, 1867, are arranged by the type of record. The series consists of reports of unfortunates and of persons and articles hired.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, File 4.11.5
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Miscellaneous Reports from Staff Officers

July 1865–Oct. 1867

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Cataloged as “Miscellaneous Reports from Staff Officers”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M826, File 6.4.2
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Miscellaneous Reports from Subordinate Officers

1865–1867

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Cataloged as “Miscellaneous Reports from Subordinate Officers”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M826, File 6.4.1
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Miscellaneous Reports — Goldsboro (Subassistant Commissioner)

1867–68

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Unbound miscellaneous reports, 1867–68, are arranged by type of report. The series consists of reports of operations, rations, sanitation, schools, and cases tried.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, File 4.12.9
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Miscellaneous Reports — Greensboro (Subassistant Commissioner)

1866–68

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Unbound miscellaneous reports, 1866–68, are arranged by type of report. The series consists of reports of arrests, sanitation, schools, indentures and indentures canceled.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, File 4.16.11
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Miscellaneous Reports — Greenville (Subassistant Commissioner)

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Unbound miscellaneous reports, 1866–68, are arranged by type of record. The series consists of school reports, monthly reports of lands and abandoned lands, monthly and quarterly returns of stores, reports of persons and articles hired, and reports of…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, File 5.27.10
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