General Orders and Circulars Issued
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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: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 5: Orders and Circulars
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M826, Subseries 5.1
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content: The volume of general orders and circulars issued by the Assistant Commissioner, June 1865–December 1868, is arranged by type of issuance, thereunder by year, and thereunder numerically. The general orders consist primarily of issuances outlining the general policies of the Bureau. Several of the general orders are reprints of letters of instructions from the Commissioner of the Bureau, the Secretary of War, and the President of the United States. The circulars are mostly policy directives published for the general information and guidance of the Bureau officials in Mississippi. There is a name index book for the general orders.