Unregistered Letters Received
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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 5
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content: Archival materials
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content: The letters and telegrams received by the Assistant Commissioner
are in two unbound series–one series of registered letters
and one series of unregistered letters.

The unregistered letters received, May 1865–May 1869, are arranged by year, thereunder alphabetically by initial letter of surname or office of correspondent, and thereunder in chronological order. Letters received from Bureau headquarters at Washington, D. C., are filed under the letter "H" for O. O. Howard. The letters were not given file citations by the Assistant Commissioner's office, but some letters were given file citations by other offices, such as Headquarters, Military District of South Carolina.