Ration Returns
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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: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870 / Series 9: Records Relating to the Issuance of Rations
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content: Jan. 1866–Nov. 1868
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M869, Subseries 9.3
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content: Archival materials
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content: The ration returns, January 1866–November 1868, were received from subordinate officials. They are arranged in chronological order. Generally the returns list the amount of rations issued, the amount remaining, and the people to whom the rations were issued.