Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the District of Columbia, 1865-1872 (inclusive), [microform].

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Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the District of Columbia, 1865-1872 (inclusive), [microform].

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Letterbooks, correspondence, reports, and registers of marriages, complaints and claimants for the office of Assistant Commissioner for the District of Columbia, 1865-1872, as organized within the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.

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United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865–1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States. The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which created the Freedmen's Bureau, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. It was passed on March 3, 1865, by Congress to aid former slaves ...