Endorsements Sent
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M999, Series 6
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content: Archival materials
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content: Endorsements sent are characteristics of 19th–century record–keeping practices. A reply to an incoming letter was frequently written on the letter itself or on a specially prepared wrapper. The reply, known as an endorsement, was then copied into an endorsement book, and the endorsed letter was returned to the sender or forwarded to another office. Endorsement books usually include a summary of the incoming letters and sometimes the texts of previous endorsements that were recorded on it.

The four volumes of endorsements sent, May 3, 1865–January 25, 1869, are arranged chronologically. Volume 1 has a name index; volumes 2 – 4 have no indexes. The endorsements are cross–referenced to the registers of letters received by the abbreviation "LR" (letters received) followed by the number of the letter. Endorsements for the period January 1–May 5, 1869, are in volume 5 of the registers of letters received.