Registers of Letters Received — Natchez (Subassistant Commissioner)

Source catalog description

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The two volumes of registers of letters received, March 1866–September 1867 and September–December 1868, 1 (217) and 2 (218), are arranged by time period. The entries in volume 1 (217) are arranged alphabetically by the initial letter of the surname of the correspondent and thereunder chronologically. Those in volume 2 (218) are arranged chronologically. Volume 1 (217) also contains entries for letters received by the claims agent (January–May 1869), which are duplicated in the single–volume register of letters received (222) reproduced in this publication in the records for the "Agent for the Payment of Bounties" at Natchez.

Collection

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872

Archival grouping

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 3: Subordinate Field Offices / 3.35: Natchez (Subassistant Commissioner)

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