Register of Complaints — Macon (Subassistant Commissioner)

Source catalog description

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The single–volume register of complaints, June–September 1865 (191), is arranged by the initial letter of the surname of the planter and thereunder chronologically. The volume also contains a register of prisoners confined in jail at Macon, Mississippi (August–November 1865); a register of prisoners (July–August 1865); a register of rations drawn for prisoners (July–September 1865); a register of rations issued to refugees and indigent freedmen (July 1865–January 1866); a list of the number of indigent freedmen in contraband camp; and a register of complaints (August–October 1865). For a register of complaints from July to September 1867 for the subassistant Commissioner at Macon, see volume (190) of the register of complaints for the agent at Louisville described above dated September 1867–November 1868.

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 / 3.29: Macon (Subassistant Commissioner)

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