Letters and Orders Received by Capt. O. Brown, Superintendent of Contrabands at Norfolk — Norfolk (Subassistant Commissioner, 1st District)

Source catalog description

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Unbound letters and orders received by Capt. O. Brown, Superintendent of Contrabands at Norfolk, April–June 1865, are arranged chronologically. Included are a few ration returns and orders issued, and also a report of Lt. C. H. Beirne for Apr. and May 1865. For orders received by Capt. Survetus Hawk, assistant superintendent, June–September 1865, see Volume 1 (199) of the two–volume series of registers of destitutes receiving rations filed under the records of the subassistant commissioner for the 5th District for Fort Monroe, VA (See Roll 127).

Collection

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

Archival grouping

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 3: Subordinate Field Offices / 3.69: Norfolk (Subassistant Commissioner, 1st District)

Catalog date

Apr.–June 1865

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