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Copies of Reports and Returns by the Superintendent — Chattanooga (Superintendent)

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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.

Unbound copies of reports and returns by the superintendent, December 1865–April 1867, are arranged chronologically. The series includes returns of abandoned property, and reports on such topics as conditions and operations, outrages, persons and articles hired, rents collected, back pay and bounty paid, and schools.

Collection
Records of the Field Offices for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872
Archival grouping
Records of the Field Offices for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 3: Subordinate Field Offices / 3.4: Chattanooga (Superintendent)
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Catalog reference: NMAAHC.FB.M1911, File 3.4.8

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

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