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Assistant Commissioner's Reports of Rations, Clothing, and Medicine Issued — Records Relating to Issuance of Rations

July 1865–Dec. 1868

African American history · place not specified

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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.

The Assistant Commissioner's reports of rations, clothing, and medicine issued, July 1865–December 1868, is arranged chronologically. These reports were consolidated from the monthly reports received from subordinate officers.

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 2: Records Relating to Specific Bureau Functions / 2.3: Records Relating to Issuance of Rations
Catalog date
July 1865–Dec. 1868
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Catalog reference: NMAAHC.FB.M979, File 2.3.1

Collection: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Arkansas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869

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