Records Relating to Abandoned or Confiscated Lands
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1055, Series 9
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content: Archival materials
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content: There are one bound volume and two unbound series of records relating to abandoned lands. A volume of summaries of monthly reports received of abandoned or confiscated lands, August 1865–March 1867, is arranged chronologically and includes a general description of the land, the former owner's name, the county or political jurisdiction in which it was obtained, and its total acreage. This volume appears to have been compiled largely from similar information found in the unbound monthly reports of abandoned or confiscated lands, April 1865–March 1867. The unbound reports, also arranged chronologically, were compiled in the Assistant Commissioner's Office from the monthly reports of abandoned or confiscated lands, August 1865–Feruary 1867, which are submitted by local superintendents. The local superintendents' reports are arranged by name of State and thereunder chronologically.