Miscellaneous Virginia letters [manuscript] : including 6 letters of the Slater family, 3 Civil War and Reconstruction letters, a letter of William Branch Giles, and a letter pertaining to electromedical machinery, 1827-1867.
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Morgan, Charles Tigg, 1850-1924
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Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868
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Slater family.
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Branch, William Giles, 1762-1830,
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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 ...