Miscellaneous Records
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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 2: Records Relating to Specific Bureau Functions
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content: 1865–68
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M979, Subseries 2.6
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content: Archival materials
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content: This series of unbound records, 1865–68, is arranged chronologically. It includes a copy of the amnesty proclamation of President Johnson, May 1865; a report of the number of military posts in Arkansas and Missouri, June 1865; a copy of a report of Bvt. Maj. Gen. J. B. Sanborn to the Secretary of the Interior on the condition of affairs between freedmen and Indians in Indian Territory, January 1866; a record of the trial of Capt. John Sweeny, June 1866; a report of contracts made and approved for 1866; a list of murders and assaults with intent to kill committed in Arkansas during the year March 1867–March 1868; and other items.