Personnel Records
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the District of Columbia, 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.M1055, Series 11
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content: Archival materials
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content: There are four bound volumes and four unbound series of records relating to military and civilian personnel employed by the Bureau. A station book listing officers who were employed by the Bureau, 1865–68, is arranged chronologically by date of appointment and thereunder by name of officer. For each officer assigned to the Bureau, the entry gives his name, duty, rank, regiment, date of assignment, and title. Two station books listing civilians who were employed by the Bureau, 1865–68, are arranged chronologically by date of appointment and thereunder by name of appointee. Each entry includes the civilian's name, station, date of contract, and pay. The military and civilian station books contain name indexes. The monthly rosters of officers and civilians, July 1865–August 1869, are lists of commissioned officers and civilian assistants employed by the Bureau in the District. Arranged chronologically, they include the name, rank or title, regiment, and nature of duty of each officer or civilian assistant. These reports were compiled largely from monthly rosters of officers and civilians, August 1865–October 1868, received from local superintendents and staff officers. The August 1865–October 1868 rosters are arranged by name of State and thereunder in chronological order. A register of laborers, March–May 1868, arranged numerically, indicates the residence of each laborer, the number of persons in his family, the dates of employment, rate of pay per day, amount received per pay period, and the name of the official who recommended the laborer for employment. The monthly reports of persons and articles hired, submitted by local superintendents, July 1866–December 1867, are arranged chronologically. The reports include the names of persons hired, their job assignments, dates of service, rates of pay, and dates of contracts. Letters of appointment and revocation received from Bureau headquarters, March 1867–December 1868, are form letters, arranged chronologically, appointing and discharging Bureau employees. In addition to these records, there is a series of oaths of office, 1866–68, arranged alphabetically by initial letter of surname of individual. Such oaths were required by an act of July 2, 1862 (12 Stat. 502), for all officeholders, whether elected or appointed.