Registers of Letters Received
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 3: Subordinate Field Offices / 3.21: Memphis (Subassistant Commissioner – Subdistrict of Memphis)
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1911, File 3.21.4
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content: Archival materials
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content: The five volumes of registers of letters received, July 1865–March 1872, 1 (128) through 5 (132), are arranged by time periods. Entries in volume 1 (128) are arranged chronologically; those in volumes 2 (129) through 5 (132) are arranged by the initial letter of the surname of correspondent and thereunder arranged in chronological order and numbered. There are name indexes in volumes 1 (128) through 3 (130) and 5 (132). Volume 1 (128) also contains a register of captured and abandoned property in charge of and leased by the Bureau (March 1866–February 1867).