Registers of Abandoned Property
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 18: Records Relating to Abandoned Property
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M999, Subseries 18.1
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content: Archival materials
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content: Three volumes of registers of abandoned property, each volume for February 1861–May 1868. Entries in volume 1 are arranged alphabetically by county; those in volume 3 are arranged alphabetically by name of former owner. Volume 1 contains a table of contents listing counties; volume 2 contains a name index to lessees that also includes the names of former owners; and volume 3 contains a name index to former owners that shows the date the property was restored and the order authorizing the restoration. Monthly lists of destitute whites, May–September 1866, reveal the destitute whites in each district and the amount of rations needed to sustain them.