Annual Narrative Reports of Operations and Conditions
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 6: Reports of Operations and Conditions in Louisiana
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content: Oct. 1866–Oct. 1868
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1027, Subseries 6.1
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content: Archival materials
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content: The Assistant Commissioner retained copies of certain periodic reports he sent to General Howard in Washington. The copies consisted of annual narrative reports of operations and conditions, October 1866–October 1868. Similar in format, content, and chronological arrangement, both reports summarize activities for the time periods they cover, mention problems, and give the Assistant Commissioner's opinions concerning relationships between freedmen and the white populace and between freedmen and the State courts. Also included are crop reports, summaries of any activities of military units enforcing Bureau policies, descriptions of the political climate and activities in the State, statistical data concerning Bureau operations, a statement of the Bureau's organization in the State at both headquarters and subdistrict levels, lists of Bureau officials at headquarters, and lists of subassistant commissioners and agents, Each report is usually arranged by staff office but sometimes is further divided by subdistrict or parish (county).