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Miscellaneous Records — Demopolis
Jan. 1866–Nov. 1868
African American history · place not specified
Source catalog description
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Unbound miscellaneous records, January 1866–November 1868, are arranged by subject and thereunder chronologically. The series includes an opinion of Clarke and Lyon in Freedmen v. Ridgway, leases for a plantation to be used as an asylum, a list of contributors to a black school, and a plan of Bureau buildings. Also included is a list of government buildings at Gainesville, and letters sent, orders issued, reports, and bills of lading.
- Collection
- Records of the Field Offices for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872
- Archival grouping
- Records of the Field Offices for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 4: Subordinate Field Offices / 4.5: Demopolis
- Catalog date
- Jan. 1866–Nov. 1868
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Catalog reference: NMAAHC.FB.M1900, File 4.5.5
Collection: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872
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