Reports and Returns — Memphis (Subassistant Commissioner – Subdistrict of Memphis)

Source catalog description

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Unbound reports and returns, 1865, 1866, 1867, and 1868, are arranged chronologically. Included are returns of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage; returns of quartermaster stores; abstracts; monthly statements of rents collected; statements of abandoned property; and summary statements, and the following types of reports: on the numbers of people issued rations, clothing, and medicines; on persons and articles hired; on operations and conditions; of expenditures; of outrages committed; of monies received and expended; and consolidated monthly reports of county superintendents.

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 / 3.21: Memphis (Subassistant Commissioner – Subdistrict of Memphis)

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