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2. Freedmen's Bureau - Wikipedia

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   The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, [1] was a U.S. government agency of early post American Civil War Reconstruction, assisting freedmen (i.e., former slaves) in the South. It was established on March 3, 1865, and operated briefly as a federal agency after the War, from ...

3. Military Division of the James - Wikipedia

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   In a law approved March 3, 1865, Congress established the Freedmen's Bureau (Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands), in the United States Department of War for "the supervision and management of all abandoned lands, and the control of all subjects relating to refugees and freedmen from rebel states, or from any district of country ...

4. Freedmen's Bureau bills - Wikipedia

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   The Freedmen's Bureau was created in 1865 during the Lincoln administration, by an act of Congress called the Freedman's Bureau Bill. [5] It was passed on March 3, 1865, in order to aid former slaves through food and housing, oversight, education, health care, and employment contracts with private landowners.

5. J. B. Blanding - Wikipedia

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   Jabez Bullock Blanding (August 5, 1841 – May 1, 1866), called Lt. J. B. Blanding in most reports about his death, was a disabled combat veteran of the American Civil War and an agent of the Freedmen's Bureau in the United States who was assassinated by white Mississippians in Grenada, Yalobusha County in April 1866.

6. Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery - Wikipedia

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   It was established in February 1864 by the Union military commander of the Alexandria District for use as a cemetery for the burial of African Americans who had escaped slavery, known as contrabands and freedmen. During early Reconstruction, it was operated by the Freedmen's Bureau. It was closed in late 1868, after Congress ended most ...

7. Rufus Saxton - Wikipedia

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   He was appointed military governor of the Department of the South in May 1862 and was involved with the Port Royal Experiment. After the war, Saxton was a strong advocate for the enfranchisement of African Americans and served as the Freedmen's Bureau 's first assistant commissioner.