Letters Sent — Meridian (Subcommissioner)

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.

The five volumes of letters sent, January 1866–February 1867 and July 1867–July 1868, 1 (197), 2 (198), 3 (199), 4 (201), and 5 (202), are arranged chronologically with the exception of volumes 1 (197) and 2 (198), which cover the same period (January–March 1866). Volume 1 (197) contains "official" letters—letters and reports to the Assistant Commissioner and to the Northern District of Mississippi, while volume 2 (198) contains letters to local citizens and Army officers in the area. There are name indexes in volumes 2 (198) and 4 (201).

Collection

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

Archival grouping

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 3: Subordinate Field Offices / 3.32: Meridian (Subcommissioner)

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