Unregistered Letters Received
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content: Records of the New Orleans Field Offices, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the New Orleans Field Offices, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 4: Records of the Assistant Subassistant Commissioner for Iberville and West Baton Rouge Parishes and Predecessors
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content: Jan. 1865–June 1868
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1483, Subseries 4.5
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content: Archival materials
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content: The letters received by the assistant subassistant commissioner are in two unbound subseries—one of registered letters, the other of unregistered letters. The unregistered letters January 1865–June 1868, are arranged chronologically. They include communications from military officers and Freedmen's Bureau officials. These letters concern plantation business and property matters, labor contracts between planters and freedmen, the poll tax,  distribution of emergency rations, transportation of freedmen, and general administrative procedures.