Letters Sent and Registers of Letters Received — Farmville (Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

Source catalog description

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The two volumes of letters sent and registers of letters received, April–December 1868, 1 (162) and 2 (314), are arranged by time period and thereunder by type of record. The letters sent are arranged chronologically, and the register of entries for letters received are arranged alphabetically by the initial letter of the surname of the correspondent and thereunder chronologically. There is a name index in Volume 1 (162), and the volume includes a register of letters received at Farmville (Apr.–Aug. 1868) and letters sent to Marysville and Charlotte Court House (Aug.–Dec. 1868). Volume 2 (314) includes letters sent from Marysville and Charlotte Court House (Oct.–Dec. 1868).

Collection

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

Archival grouping

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 3: Subordinate Field Offices / 3.28: Farmville (Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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