Reports Relating to Bounty Claims and Disbursements
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee, 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.M999, Series 17
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content: Archival materials
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content: These narrative reports and statistical charts, May 18, 1867–April 30, 1869, were forwarded from the subdistricts to the Assistant Commissioner and contain information about the number and value of claims processed and settled. Some of the reports are entered in the registers of letters received. The disbursements relate to payments of backpay to black soldiers and sailors.