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Letters Received by the Superintendent — Fort Monroe (Department of Negro Affairs, 1863–65) Departments of Virginia and North Carolina

Feb.–Apr. 1864 and Apr. 1865

African American history · place not specified

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Unbound letters received by the superintendent, February–April 1864 and April 1865, are arranged chronologically. For the period Feb. to Apr. 1864 these are the letters received by Capt. C. B. Wilder, and for Apr. 1865 there are three letters received by Lt. Col. John Coughlin. For records of the Assistant Superintendent of Negro Affairs, Fort Monroe, Mar.–June 1865, see Norfolk, VA. For letters and endorsements received, August–September 1864, and a register of persons receiving ration tickets, dated December 1864–February 1865, see Volume (2) 200 of the two volumes of registers of destitutes receiving rations (1865) filed with the records of the subassistant commissioner, 5th District, Fort Monroe, VA, found on Roll 127.

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 / 3.64: Fort Monroe (Department of Negro Affairs, 1863–65) Departments of Virginia and North Carolina
Catalog date
Feb.–Apr. 1864 and Apr. 1865
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Catalog reference: NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.64.2

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

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