Letters Sent by the Surgeon
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 4: Subordinate Field Offices / 4.26: Selma (Freedmen's Hospital)
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1900, File 4.26.1
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content: Archival materials
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content: The two volumes of letters sent by the surgeon, May 1866–June 1868, 1 (185) and 2 (186), are arranged chronologically. Volume 2 (186) contains the earliest letters sent, dated May–July 1866, by the surgeon at the Talladega hospital. For other records relating to that hospital, see the single volume of letters sent, August–December 1868 (170), listed below for Freedmen's Hospital at Talladega.