Records Relating to Transportation of Freedmen and Bureau Personnel
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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 10
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content: Archival materials
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content: Two bound volumes and four unbound series, each volume and series arranged chronologically, comprise the records relating to the transportation of freedmen and Bureau personnel. Two volumes of freedmen's transportation applications, July 1865–January 1866 and April 1866–November 1868, list the names of males and the number of females who applied for transportation, their destinations, the names of the officials who recommended the applications, and the dates that the applications were submitted and approved. The volumes use the same cross–reference symbols described in other records of the Assistant Commissioner's Office. Unbound records consisting of descriptive lists of freedmen for whom agents requested transportation, April 1867–July 1868, give the name of the freedmen who desired transportation and his age, height, physical description, former owner, former and present residences, and destination. Agents' receipts for transportation authorized by the local superintendents in the District, March–June 1867, are acknowledgments of permission granted to transport freedmen and include the agent's name, number of freedmen, partial lists of freedmen's names, and destinations. Agents' monthly reports of transportation furnished to freedmen, April–July 1867, show the number of freedmen who were transported at Bureau expense. Information also includes the agent's name, the age and sex of freedmen transported, and the number who refused transportation. Finally, the records include monthly reports concerning transportation furnished to Bureau officers for official travel, January 1867–December 1868; these reports list the date and number of the transportation order, the name of the person to whom the order was issued, and destination, and whether the person was a civilian or in the military service.