Register of Rations Shipped to Agents and Issued in the Counties — Huntsville (Subassistant Commissioner)

Source catalog description

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The single–volume register of rations shipped to agents and issued in the counties, January–October 1866 (80), is arranged by type of record. The volume includes a register of subsistence stores shipped to agents (January–April 1866), a register of rations issued in bulk to freedmen (January–March 1866), and a register of rations issued in the counties (February–October 1866). The subsistence stores shipped are arranged chronologically, rations issued in bulk are arranged chronologically and thereunder alphabetically, and the rations issued in the counties are arranged alphabetically by county. The volume also contains copies and extracts of special orders issued at the contraband camp at Huntsville for the period December 1864–July 1865.

Collection

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

Archival grouping

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 4: Subordinate Field Offices / 4.13: Huntsville (Subassistant Commissioner)

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