Letters Sent
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M826, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
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content: The seven letter books, June 1865–May 1869, consist of press copies of letters, telegrams, and reports sent by the Assistant Commissioner and the Acting Assistant Adjutant General. The communications in the letter books are generally arranged in chronological order. There are name indexes in each of the first six volumes, and there are also subject index books for the first three volumes. Filmed before the seventh letter book is a name index prepared by the National Archives.

Frequently noted in the first three volumes are the entry numbers of letters received relating to the communications in the letter books. Sometimes citations of special orders or endorsements relating to the letters are also given.