Registers of Letters Received (423, 424)
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content: Records of the New Orleans Field Offices, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the New Orleans Field Offices, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 4: Records of the Assistant Subassistant Commissioner for Iberville and West Baton Rouge Parishes and Predecessors
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content: July 1867–Dec. 1868
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1483, Subseries 4.3
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content: Archival materials
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content: Entries in the two volumes of registers of letters received, July 1867–December 1868 (423 – 424), are arranged alphabetically by initial letter of correspondent's surname or office and thereunder chronologically by date of receipt. Letters from Freedmen's Bureau officials were sometimes registered under "R" and other times under the initial letter of the writer's surname. Many letters in the second Volume (424) are not registered in correct alphabetical sequence. Attached to the front endpaper of the first Volume (423) is a table of contents (labeled "Index") that indicates the pages on which the various alphabetical groupings are located. Letters received from Acting Assistant Adjutant General L. H. Warren (pp. 130 – 139) and General Superintendent of Education Frank R. Chase (pp. 50 – 53) are registered in special sections of this volume, although the table of contents does not indicate this. There are two name indexes in the second Volume (424): one on page 19 and another pages 345 – 356. Among the cross–references in these two volumes, most, such as "L. B.," "L. S.," and "Letter Book," refer to the four volumes of letters Sent (425 – 428) from the Plaquemine office. The cross–references to endorsement books ("EB," etc.) apparently pertain to records of the assistant subassistant commissioner that are no longer extant. Letters received from March–June 1867 are registered in the volume of special orders Received (422).