Register of Letters Received — Donaldsonville (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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 letters received, September–December 1868 (259), includes endorsements and is arranged chronologically. The volume has a name index. For letters received, see the unbound registered letters received, September–December 1868, described below. For other letters received, see Volume 1 (262) of letters sent and Volume (258) letters received listed above. The volume also contains a register of contracts approved, 1866, arranged numerically; a register of payrolls approved, 1866, arranged chronologically by date approved; accounts of the agent with the quartermaster department, June 1866–March 1867, arranged chronologically; complaints, 1867, arranged numerically; and accounts of planters, December 1866–February 1867, arranged chronologically.

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 / 5.17: Donaldsonville (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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