Special Orders Issued
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content: Selected Series of Records Issued by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M742, Series 4
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content: Archival materials
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content: The single volume of special orders, 1865–72, relates mainly to personneal, although there are a few orders that pertain to the general administration of the Bureau. The orders are arranged by year and thereunder numerically with the exception of those for those period 1870–71, which are arranged in one numerical series. In the left margin are the names of the people mentioned in the orders. In the name and subject index at the page in the volume, and the number after the subject refers to the number of the special order. The volume also contains the special field orders issued by Commissioner Howard from October 19 to November 6, 1865; they are placed between Special Orders 117 and 118.