Letters Sent
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M798, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
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content: The 9 volumes of letters sent, October 1865–May 1869, are generally arranged in chronological order. They consist mainly of press copies of letters and telegrams sent by the Assistant Commissioner and the Assistant Adjutant General. Also included are copies of letters sent by the Assistant Inspector General and the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence. A name index is at the beginning of each volume. 

The legibility of some of the letters is poor, and a few are not readable. The last part of Volume 2 of letters sent is missing, which is the reason for the gap in dates from February 21 to March 6, 1866. Letters sent by Assistant Commissioner Tillson from Savannah in March 1866 were copied into the volume of special field orders issued and are reproduced in Series 8.1.