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Register of Rations and Clothing Issued — Bragg Home Colony (Assistant Superintendent of Freedom)

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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 single–volume register of rations and clothing issued, March–November 1865 (166), is arranged chronologically. The volume also contains a register of clothing issued for Freedmens Home Colony, by R. K. Diossy, March–November 1865, arranged by person to whom clothing was issued and thereunder chronologically. Also included is a register of clothing issued for Bragg Home Colony, October 1865, arranged by person to whom issued and thereunder chronologically. The volume has a name index.

Collection
Records of the Field Offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1872
Archival grouping
Records of the Field Offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1872 / Series 5: Subordinate Field Offices / 5.8: Bragg Home Colony (Assistant Superintendent of Freedom)
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Catalog reference: NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.8.3

Collection: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1872

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