Registers of Letters Received
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 3: Subordinate Field Offices / 3.49: Tupelo (Subassistant Commissioner)
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1907, File 3.49.3
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content: Archival materials
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content: The two volumes of registers of letters received 1 (256) and 2 (257) cover the periods July 1867–April 1868 and August–December 1868. The entries in volume 1 (256) are arranged by the initial letter of the surname of the writer and thereunder arranged in chronological order and numbered. Volume 2 (257) includes endorsements that are arranged chronologically. Volume 2 (257) also contains a "Register of Contracts Approved and Filed at Okolona," January 1866, arranged numerically, and a register of claims settled at Okolona, September–October 1867, arranged chronologically.