Miscellaneous Records — Fort Smith (Sebastian County)

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Unbound miscellaneous records, 1865–67, are arranged by type of record and thereunder chronologically. Included are retained copies of receipts for clothing (January–October 1867), monthly returns of quartermaster stores (October 1866–October 1867), abstracts of articles purchased (November 1866–March 1867), rations reports (April–June 1867), reports of destitute soldiers treated at Fort Smith Hospital (August–October 1867), orders received restoring property (October 1865–June 1866), applications for rations (July–August 1866), miscellaneous court papers and school reports (May–July 1867), and reports of persons and articles hired (August–December 1866).

Collection

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Arkansas, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872

Archival grouping

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Arkansas, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 3: Subordinate Field Offices / 3.7: Fort Smith (Sebastian County)

Catalog date

1865–67

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