Historical Illustration: Glimpses at the Freedmen's Bureau. Issuing Rations to the Old and Sick / From a Sketch by our Special Artist, Jas. E. Taylor.

Freedmen's Bureau Act & The Freedmen's Bureau

Historical Illustration: Glimpses at the Freedmen's Bureau. Issuing Rations to the Old and Sick / From a Sketch by our Special Artist, Jas. E. Taylor.

1866

Historical Illustration

The Library of Congress features an 1866 historical illustration, drawn by James E. Taylor, that depicts a group of African Americans gathered outside the Freedmen's Bureau in Richmond, Virginia. The caption reads: "Glimpses at the Freedmen's Bureau. Issuing rations to the old and sick."

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


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