Miscellaneous Records — Mobile (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.

Unbound miscellaneous records, 1865–68, are arranged by type of record. The series includes affidavits, February 1866–December 1867, some of which relate to the riot of May 14, 1867. The records also contain contracts (December 1866–January 1868), authorizations for rations (August 1865), copies of monthly reports of rations issued (January–November 1866), trimonthly reports of destitutes (April–May 1866), and reports of persons and articles hired and returns of quartermaster stores (July 1865–July 1868). In addition, there are such miscellaneous items as a copy of an act dated March 1866 to provide for the erection of schoolhouses in Mobile and proceedings of a board of survey convened to investigate the damage and loss of a shipment of corn.

Collection

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

Archival grouping

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 4: Subordinate Field Offices / 4.18: Mobile (Subassistant Commissioner)

Catalog date

1865–68

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