Historical Report: The Freedmen's Bureau : Reports of Generals Steedman and Fullerton on the Condition of the Freedmen's Bureau in the Southern States.

Freedmen's Bureau Act & The Freedmen's Bureau

Historical Report: The Freedmen's Bureau : Reports of Generals Steedman and Fullerton on the Condition of the Freedmen's Bureau in the Southern States.

1866

Historical Report

The Library of Congress presents an 1866 historical report, written by Generals James Barrett Steedman and Joseph Scott Fullerton, that provides accounts of how the Freedmen's Bureau was operating in the South. Themes includes: observations from Virginia and North Carolina, lists of the personnel, and general feelings and influences of the bureau.

The Freedmen's Bureau was a federal agency that was created to provide aid to displaced Southerners, including newly freed people, during and after the Civil War. 


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