Register of Letters Received
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1872
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1872 / Series 5: Subordinate Field Offices / 5.17: Donaldsonville (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.17.4
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content: The single-volume register of letters received, September–December 1868 (259), includes endorsements and is arranged chronologically. The volume has a name index. For letters received, see the unbound registered letters received, September–December 1868, described below. For other letters received, see Volume 1 (262) of letters sent and Volume (258) letters received listed above. The volume also contains a register of contracts approved, 1866, arranged numerically; a register of payrolls approved, 1866, arranged chronologically by date approved; accounts of the agent with the quartermaster department, June 1866–March 1867, arranged chronologically; complaints, 1867, arranged numerically; and accounts of planters, December 1866–February 1867, arranged chronologically.