Registers of Letters Received and Endorsements — Knoxville (Subassistant Commissioner)

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 three volumes of registers of letters received and endorsements, July 1866–June 1871, 1 (115), 2 (116), and 3 (117), are arranged by time period. The entries in volume 1 (115) are arranged chronologically. The remaining entries are arranged by the initial letter of the surname of the correspondent and thereunder chronologically. There are name indexes in the first two volumes. The letters registered in this series between March and November 1867 relate primarily to property and loyalty of claimants. The regular letters for this period are registered in volume 2 (85) of the two–volume series of registers of letters received for Chattanooga, described above.

Collection

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

Archival grouping

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 3: Subordinate Field Offices / 3.18: Knoxville (Subassistant Commissioner)

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