Records Relating to the Issue of Supplies to Freedman
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee, 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.M999, Series 15
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content: Archival materials
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content: Reports of numbers of persons who were issued rations, clothing, and medicines are in two series, each of which is arranged chronologically. The first series consists of retained copies of monthly reports, June 1866–October 1868, sent by the Assistant Commissioner to General Howard. The second series consists of reports received by the Assistant Commissioner from the subdistrict, November 1865–September 1868, from which the reports in the former series were compiled. Both the Assistant Commissioner's reports and the reports from the subdistricts contain extensive statistical data and information regarding the number of men, women, and children receiving rations and the condition of their health; the number and total value of rations issued; and the increase or decrease in the number of freedmen receiving aid due to births and deaths.

Reports of freedmen's homes and institutions, August–October 1865, June–October 1867, and June–October 1868 are arranged chronologically. These weekly and trimonthly reports document the issuance of rations at freedmen's homes, refugee's and freedmen's hospitals, and orphan's asylums. These reports also contain information regarding the activities and general status of the institutions, many of which were located on abandoned land or on property controlled by the Bureau.