"Register of Contrabands in Corps d'Afrique General Hospital" (417)
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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: Oct. 1863–Dec. 1865
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1483, Subseries 2.7
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content: Archival materials
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content: The "Register of Contrabands in Corps d'Afrique General Hospital" (417), lists patients treated from October 1863–December 1865. "Contrabands" in this context refers to freedmen, who, while their legal status remained uncertain, were sometimes regarded as contraband of war. The register consists of two sections. The first is a register, arranged chronologically, on which patients' names where entered when they were admitted. It covers the period October 1863–September 1864. The second section, arranged alphabetically by the initial letter of patient surnames, was apparently begun as an index for the first section. Although there are no entries on the register after September 1864, entries in the second section continue through December 1865. The volume also contains morning reports of the contrabands in the Corps d'Afrique General Hospital, October 1864–July 1865.