Miscellaneous Records — Louisville (Superintendent and 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 cover the period October 1865–October 1868 and are arranged by record type. The records include money receipts (June 1866–September 1868); affidavits and declarations (January 1866); bonds relating to freedmen (October 1865–May 1866); a promissory note (October 1868); a table of unfortunates among freedmen (September 1867); and reports of outrages and murders (December 1865–October 1866). Also included is a memorandum of condition of affairs in Lexington and Central subdistricts of Kentucky (May 1866); a list of persons discharged from freedmen and refugee hospitals (July 1868); an opinion of the Board relating to clothing deficiencies in the return of the assistant surgeon (February 1867); and a list of persons refusing to pay taxes for the hospital (April 1866).

Collection

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

Archival grouping

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Kentucky, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 4: Subordinate Field Offices / 4.20: Louisville (Superintendent and Subassistant Commissioner)

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