Letters Sent (Bound) — Bayou Sara (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

The five volumes of letters sent, 1 (227), 2 (228), 3 (468), 4 (229), and 5 (469), cover the period January 1866–December 1868. Entries in Volume 1 (227) are arranged in chronological order and numbered, and the remaining entries are arranged chronologically. Each volume has a name index. Entries in Volume 2 (228) also cross reference a case book, which is a single–volume register of complaints, May 1867–August 1868 (234), described below. Volume 4 (229) also contains a list of contracts for 1868 arranged numerically, and a register of complaints dated January 1866–May 1867, arranged numerically by case number. The name index to letters sent in this volume also indexes the complaints.

Collection

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1872

Archival grouping

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1872 / Series 5: Subordinate Field Offices / 5.7: Bayou Sara (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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