Letters Received
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of North Carolina Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M843, Series 4
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content: Archival materials
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content: The letters received by the Assistant Commissioner and the Assistant Adjutant General are in two unbound series–one of registered letters, the other of unregistered letters.

The registered letters received, July 1865–June 1869, are arranged in the same order in which they were entered in the registers of letters received.

The unregistered letters received, July 1865–March 1869, are those that were received by the Assistant Commissioner's office but were never entered in the registers of letters received. They are arranged by year and thereunder alphabetically by initial letter of surname or office of correspondent. According to this filing system, letters received from the Assistant Commissioner when he was away from his office at Raleigh are filed under the letter "A," those from the Commissioner at Washington, D. C., under the letter "C," those from the Office of the Secretary of War or the Adjutant General's Office under "W" for War Department, and those from the State of North Carolina under the letter "N." The National Archives has prepared a name index for these letters and has filmed it at the beginning of each roll of unregistered letters.