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Register of Indigent and Helpless Freedmen — Natchitoches (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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The single–volume register of indigent and helpless freedmen, November 1867 (377), is arranged numerically. The volume also contains a register of indigent and destitute whites, Parish Natchitoches, arranged by month, (February–June 1868); a register of indigent and destitute freed people, Parish Natchitoches, arranged by month (February–June 1868); a resister or indigent and destitute whites, Parish Sabine, arranged by month, (February–June 1868); and a register of indigent and destitute freed people, Parish Sabine, arranged by month, (February and May 1868).

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 / 5.42: Natchitoches (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)
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Catalog reference: NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.42.17

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

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