Endorsements Sent
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of South 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.M869, Series 2
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content: According to the recordkeeping practice of the day, the Assistant Commissioner kept a series of records known as endorsements sent or endorsement books. Frequently, instead of writing a letter, the Assistant Commissioner or assistant adjutants wrote the reply or forwarding statement on the incoming letter and either returned the communication to the sender or forwarded it to another officer. These replies or forwarding statements were copied into endorsement books, with a summary of the contents of the incoming communication and with the previous endorsements that had been written on the communication.

The nine volumes of endorsements sent, June 15, 1865–June 24, 1870, are generally arranged in chronological order. In the left margin of the pages are the number of the endorsement (assigned in the order that it appears in the volume), the name of the person or title of the officer to whom the endorsement was sent, and the subject of the endorsement. The entry number of the letter received on which the endorsement was written also appears in the left margin (abbreviations used to denote registers of letters received are "IMB" and "IB"). Also found in the left margin of some of the pages are the words "Continued To" and "Continued From" with the number of a subsequent or preceding endorsement. This serves the same purpose as the fractions did for letters sent.

There are name indexes for the first four volumes and the last.