Records maintained by this organization included vaccinations and confiscated land as well as local census data, marriages, and former homes, allowing for investigation of genealogy.
Records maintained by this organization included vaccinations and confiscated land as well as local census data, marriages, and former homes, allowing for investigation of genealogy. This organization organized under the War Department and headed by General Howard provided such services as operating hospitals, legalizing marriages, and helping soldiers and sailors retrieve back pay and ceased to exist in 1872 due to Andrew Johnson's refusals to increase its funding. FTP, name this Reconstruction-era organization which established schools and aided southern whites as well as the namesakes of its commonly shortened name.
Records maintained by this organization included vaccinations and confiscated land as well as local census data, marriages, and former homes, allowing for investigation of genealogy.
{Freedmen's Bureau} [accept {Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned } {Lands}]