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Register of Claimants — Natchez (Subassistant Commissioner)

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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 single–volume register of claimants, April–December 1868 (288), is arranged alphabetically by the initial letter of the surname of the claimant and thereunder chronologically. The entries give the name, company, and regiment of the claimant; the dates the vouchers were written for; and the dates the vouchers were sent. The volume also contains a register of communications received (July 1865–February 1866).

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 / 3.35: Natchez (Subassistant Commissioner)
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Catalog reference: NMAAHC.FB.M1907, File 3.35.9

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

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