Special Orders Received
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Arkansas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Arkansas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 1: General Records / 1.5: Issuances
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content: June 1865–Apr. 1869
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M979, File 1.5.3
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content: Archival materials
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content: The unbound special orders received, June 1865–April 1869, are arranged chronologically. They are either printed or manuscript copies of extracts of special orders issued by Bureau headquarters, the War Department, the Department of Arkansas, the Subdistrict of Arkansas, and other Army commands, relating to the assignment, transfer, relief, and discharge of officers as Bureau agents and to the transfer or muster out of Army units in Arkansas. Some relate to procedures for handling property and money. Most of the orders are dated 1865 or 1866.