Registers of Letters Received — Boydton (Mecklenburg County, Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

Source catalog description

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The two volumes of registers of letters received, April 1867–December 1868, 1 (119) and 2 (141), are arranged by time period. The entries for the period April–June 1867 are arranged in general chronological order; thereafter the entries are generally arranged alphabetically by initial letter of surname of correspondent and thereunder chronologically. A name index is in Volume 2 (141). Volume 1 (119) also contains a register of transmittal letters received for the period May to December 1868.

Collection

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

Archival grouping

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 3: Subordinate Field Offices / 3.9: Boydton (Mecklenburg County, Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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