Letters Received
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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 2: Records of the Freedmen's Hospital
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content: Aug. 1865–Dec. 1868
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1483, Subseries 2.3
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content: Archival materials
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content: The letters received, August 1865–December 1868, are generally arranged chronologically. They include communications from the surgeon–in–chief, the acting assistant adjutant general, and certain assistant subassistant commissioners. The series also contains some special orders. There are also letters sent by the acting assistant surgeon in charge of Freedmen's Hospital and returned with endorsements from officers at state headquarters. These documents relate to hospital administration. Some of the letters include cross–references such as "L. B.," which pertain to the letters sent books of the surgeon–in–chief; "E. B.," which related to the endorsement books of the surgeon–in–chief; or "E. B.  4/100," which refers to the endorsement books maintained in the assistant commissioner's office (the numerator indicates the volume and the denominator the page number). Such citations as "G 14 Bu R F A L La 68" refer to the registers of letters received by the assistant commissioner's office, and the registered letters.