Narrative Reports From Subordinate Officers
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 6: Reports
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M826, Subseries 6.1
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content: Archival materials
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content: The narrative reports received by the Assistant Commissioner, 1865–1868, consist of monthly reports from subassistant commissioners and civilian agents, and concern destitution, complaints of freedmen, freedmen's labor contracts and marital problems, administration of State laws, and general operations of the subdistricts. The reports are generally arranged chronologically, and most of them are dated 1867 and 1868.