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Letters and Orders Received by Capt. O. Brown, Superintendent of Contrabands at Norfolk — Norfolk (Subassistant Commissioner, 1st District)
Apr.–June 1865
African American history · place not specified
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Unbound letters and orders received by Capt. O. Brown, Superintendent of Contrabands at Norfolk, April–June 1865, are arranged chronologically. Included are a few ration returns and orders issued, and also a report of Lt. C. H. Beirne for Apr. and May 1865. For orders received by Capt. Survetus Hawk, assistant superintendent, June–September 1865, see Volume 1 (199) of the two–volume series of registers of destitutes receiving rations filed under the records of the subassistant commissioner for the 5th District for Fort Monroe, VA (See Roll 127).
- 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 / 3.69: Norfolk (Subassistant Commissioner, 1st District)
- Catalog date
- Apr.–June 1865
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Catalog reference: NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.69.29
Collection: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872
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