Records, 1862 Aug. 5-1865 Apr. 22.

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Records, 1862 Aug. 5-1865 Apr. 22.

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Consisting of circulars and general orders issued by Gen. Rufus Saxton, U.S. Army, Headquarters, Beaufort, S.C., 5 Aug. 1862-22 Apr. 1865, regulating lives of African-American freedmen on matters of food, military service, division of land, finances, anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation, and directing superintendents of plantations re cultivation, harvesting, and sale of crops.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Saxton, Rufus, 1824-1908

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Saxton was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts. His father, Jonathan Ashley Saxton, was a Unitarian and a Transcendentalist whose feminist and abolitionist writings were heard on the lyceum circuit. He descended from a family of Unitarian ministers (Ashley, Williams, Edwards). His father attempted to secure a place for Rufus Saxton at Brook Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, a transcendentalist community started by George Ripley and attended by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Rufus Saxton's brother Samuel ...

United States. Army. Dept. of the South. Headquarters (Beaufort, S.C.)

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United States Army, Department of the South, Beaufort County, S.C. From the description of Records, 1862 Aug. 5-1865 Apr. 22. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 43254754 ...

United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

United States. Army. Dept. of the South

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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 ...