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Assistant Commissioner's Monthly Reports of Abandoned and Confiscated Lands — Records Relating to Abandoned and Confiscated Lands

Sept. 1865–Dec. 1868

African American history · place not specified

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Source catalog description

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The Assistant Commissioner's monthly reports of abandoned and confiscated lands, September 1865–December 1868, are arranged chronologically. These unbound reports were consolidated from the reports of subordinate officers and agents.

Collection
Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Arkansas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
Archival grouping
Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Arkansas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 2: Records Relating to Specific Bureau Functions / 2.2: Records Relating to Abandoned and Confiscated Lands
Catalog date
Sept. 1865–Dec. 1868
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Catalog reference: NMAAHC.FB.M979, File 2.2.1

Collection: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Arkansas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869

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