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Letters Sent — Millikens Bend (Provost Marshal and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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The two volumes of letters sent, May 1867–December 1868, 1 (339) and 2 (340), are arranged chronologically. Volume 2 (340) has a name index.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.35.1
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Letters Sent — Mobile (Subassistant Commissioner)

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The single volume of letters sent, April 1865–April 1868 (108), is arranged chronologically and has a name index for the months after January 1866.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1900, File 4.18.1
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Letters Sent — Monroe (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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The two volumes of letters sent, June 1867–December 1868, 1 (348) and 2 (349), are arranged chronologically. Volume 1 (348) has a complete name index, and Volume 2 (349) has a partial name index. Volume 2 (349) also contains a "list of discharged soldiers…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.37.1
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Letters Sent — Monroe (Subassistant Commissioner of 5th Subdistrict)

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The single volume of letters sent, May–December 1867 (347), is arranged chronologically. The volume has a name index.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.36.1
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Letters Sent — Montgomery (Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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The single volume of letters sent, June 1867–September 1868 (356), is arranged chronologically and has a name index.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.38.1
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Letters Sent — Montgomery (Subassistant Commissioner)

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The three volumes of letters sent, October 1865–December 1868, 1 (92), 2 (93), and 3 (94), are arranged and numbered in chronological order, and Volumes 1 (92) and 3 (94) have name indexes.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1900, File 4.21.1
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Letters Sent — Monticello (South Eastern District of Arkansas)

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The single volume of letters sent, July 1865–December 1866 (131), is arranged chronologically. The volume also contains special orders issued (August 1865–December 1866, circular letters (July 1865 and May and July 1866), and summaries of cases tried (May…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1901, File 3.20.1
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Letters Sent — Morganton (Subassistant Commissioner)

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The two volumes of letters sent, May 1867–December 1868, 1 (158) and 2 (159), are arranged in chronological order and numbered. There is a name index in Volume 2 (159).

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, File 4.28.1
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Letters Sent — Mount Pleasant (Acting Subassistant Commissioner)

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The two volumes of letters sent, February 1866–January 1868, 1 (234) and 2 (235), are arranged chronologically, and each volume has an index.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, File 5.41.1
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Letters Sent — Mt. Sterling (Subassistant Commissioner)

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The three volumes of letters sent, June 1866–July 1868, 1 (161), 2 (162), and 3 (163), are arranged chronologically. The volumes have overlapping dates.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1904, File 4.22.1
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Letters Sent — Murfreesboro (Agent)

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The two volumes of letters sent, May 1867–June 1869, 1 (186) and 2 (188), are arranged chronologically. Volume 1 (186) also contains a register of complaints (July 1865–January 1866); a register of contracts (November 1865–June 1867); a register of letters…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1911, File 3.24.1
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Letters Sent — Nacogdoches (Subassistant Commissioner)

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The single volume of letters sent, May–December 1868 (139), is arranged chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1912, File 4.34.1
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Letters Sent — Napoleon (Desha County)

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The two volumes of letters sent, April 1867–December 1868, 1 (135) and 2 (136), are arranged chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1901, File 3.22.1
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Letters Sent — Napoleonville (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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The two volumes of letters sent, May 1867–March 1868 and June–November 1868, 1 (380) and 2 (381) are arranged chronologically. Volume 1 (381) also contains complaints, May and July–August 1867, arranged chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.40.1
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Letters Sent — Nashville, TN (Disbursing Officer)

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The single volume of letters sent, September 1872–July 1876 (86), is arranged chronologically and has a name index.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M2029, File 1.9.1
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Letters Sent — Natchez, MS (Disbursing Officer)

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The two volumes of letters sent, October 1872–June 1876, 1 (90) and 2 (91), are arranged chronologically. Both volumes have name indexes.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M2029, File 1.10.1
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Letters Sent — Natchez (Southern District of Mississippi)

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The single volume of letters sent, June 1865–March 1866 (211), is arranged chronologically. A name index (212) and subject index (213) to this series is described above.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, File 3.34.3
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Letters Sent — Natchez (Subassistant Commissioner)

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Unbound letters sent July and November 1866 consists of two letters.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, File 3.35.1
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Letters Sent — Natchitoches (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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The three volumes of letters sent, July 1867–December 1868, 1 (363), 2 (364), and 3 (365), are arranged chronologically and each volume has a name index.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.42.1
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Letters Sent — Natchitoches (Subassistant Commissioner of the 4th Subdistrict)

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The two volumes of letters sent, June 1867–December 1868, 1 (361) and 2 (362) are arranged in chronological order and numbered. Volume 2 (362) has a name index.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.41.1
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Letters Sent — New Iberia (Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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The three volumes of letters sent cover the period February 1866–October 1867 and August–December 1868. Volume 1 (383) is arranged in chronological order and numbered. Volumes 2 (447) and 3 (448) are arranged chronologically. There is a name index in…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.43.1
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Letters Sent — New Kent Courthouse (Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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The two volumes of letters sent, 1866–68, 1 (114) and 2 (453), are arranged chronologically. Volume 2 (453) also contains letters sent (July–Sept. 1866) from Wilson's Landing, arranged chronologically.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.67.1
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Letters Sent — New Orleans, LA (Disbursing Officer)

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The two volumes of letters sent, September 1872–July 1878, 1 (103) and 2 (104), are arranged chronologically. Both have name indexes. For a subject index to part of volume 1 (103), see the single–volume subject index (106) described above.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M2029, File 1.11.2
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