Letters Sent
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Arkansas, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Arkansas, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 3: Subordinate Field Offices / 3.3: Batesville (Independence County)
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1901, File 3.3.1
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content: Archival materials
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content: The two volumes of letters sent, August 1866–December 1868, 1 (54) and 2 (55), are arranged chronologically. Volume 1 (54) was Capt. William Brian's letter book into which he copied his outgoing correspondence. (Brian was superintendent and agent at Batesville from July 1866 to February 1867). Capt. Walter O. Lattimore, who succeeded Brian, copied his orders to local citizens in Volume 1 (54) and his letters sent in Volume 2 (55).