Monthly Reports of Abandoned and Confiscated Lands
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870
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content: Aug. 1865–Dec. 1868
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M809, Series 17
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content: Archival materials
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content: The unbound monthly reports of abandoned and confiscated lands, August 1865–December 1868, are arranged chronologically  by month and thereunder alphabetically by subdistrict. The land reports usually contain information on the name of the former owner; location, boundaries, and acreage of land; whether the property was abandoned or confiscated; and types of buildings on the property. As in the case of ration reports, the Assistant Commissioner generally prepared a consolidated report based on reports received from the subdistricts. These consolidated reports contain most of the information submitted in the subdistrict reports, and they are filed at the beginning of the reports for each month.