Records Relating to Transportation
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M869, Series 14
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content: Archival materials
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content: The records relating to transportation consist of a list of requests for transportation, October 1, 1865–December 31, 1866; a register of signed transportation orders given to officers, March 6, 1866–February 3, 1867; a register of orders authorizing transportation, February 9–September 4, 1866; an unbound series of transportation requests received, April 20–December 21, 1866; an unbound series of transportation orders issued, December 19, 1865–December 31, 1866; a series of monthly transportation reports, October 1866–November 1868; and a transportation receipt, November 16, 1865. All of these records are arranged by type of record and thereunder generally in chronological order. They usually give the name or names of the people requiring transportation and their proposed destination.

Filmed directly after the records relating to transportation are a few unbound miscellaneous records, 1865–67. They are arranged by type of record and consist mainly of documents relating to property titles, marriage of freedmen, and receipts or bills of lading for such items as machinery and tools, furniture, and newspaper advertisements.