Title	Monthly Report of Operations, May 1868
Record type	Report
Creator	unknown
Date of creation	1868-05-xx
Series	Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedman, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869
Description	This report documents the activities of the Ku Klux Klan.
Additional notes	Series M999, Reel 16, Frame 995-996.
Excerpt from record	Within the operations report of the Bureau for May 1868, is a section titled “Nashville Sub-District.” In it is a report from Murfreesboro that describes the attempts of a swindler to take bounty money from African Americans. What follows is the transcription of that report. “The report of Capt. Judd, the chief of this Sub-District is in the main favorable. A few outrages by the Ku Klux Klan in Maury County are reported. Also the attempts of one James H. Holmes, recently from Washington, D. C. to swindle the colored people out of their Bounty Claims. This fellow located himself at Murfreesboro about six weeks ago- and has been operating there, and in that vicinity. He claims to be a subordinate of Sanborn and King, claim Agent at Washington. He professed to possess extraordinary facilities for procuring claims immediately without the usual formalities and delays. I would recommend a close accounting [undecipherable word] of everything passing through his hands.”
Geographic location	Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Rutherford County (Tenn.)
Names that occur in the record	Judd, Joseph E. Holmes, James H.
Subject (LC)	African Americans--Tennessee African Americans--Tennessee--Social conditions--19th century Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Tennessee--Rutherford County United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands--Records and correspondence
Coverage	1860-1869
Contributing institution	National Archives and Records Administration
Medium	microfilm
Bibliographic citation	[Document title, date]. Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869. Series M999, [Reel number, Frame number/s]. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Copyright status	public domain
Collection name	Freedmen's Bureau Records