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Special Orders — Issuances
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African American history · place not specified
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The special orders issued are in two subseries. Volume 1 (19) contains fair copies and covers the period June 1865–April 1866. It is arranged by year and thereunder numerically. A name index exists for the year 1865. The second subseries [Vols. 2 (20) and 3 (21)] consists of press copies, January 1866–December 1868, arranged by year and thereunder numerically. Name indexes exist for both volumes. The orders for January–April 1866 are duplicated in the first subseries.
- Collection
- Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Arkansas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
- Archival grouping
- Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Arkansas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 1: General Records / 1.5: Issuances
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Catalog reference: NMAAHC.FB.M979, File 1.5.2
Collection: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Arkansas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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