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Title	Monthly Report, December 22, 1865
Record type	report
Creator	Fisk, C. B.
Date of creation	1865-12-22
Series	Records of the field offices for the State of Tennessee, 1865-1872 T142
Description	Report of a brief visit of enquiring and inspection into the state of the Medical Department of the Freedmen's Bureau at Murfreesboro, Tenn. and the small pox epidemic.
Additional notes	Series T142, Reel 27, [Frames 596-598]
Excerpt from record	"There are about thirty (30) Refugees and three thousand (3000) Freedmen in and around the town. Among the Freedmen the small pox is boiling to an alarming extent and with considerable [virulence]. But as the cases are scattered all over the town & vicinity, it is difficult to arrive at the [illegible] number of them, but there are probably about one hundred & fifty."
Geographic location	Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Rutherford County (Tenn.)
Names that occur in the record	Seage, John Fisk, C. B.
Subject (LC)	African Americans--Tennessee--Social conditions--19th century Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Tennessee--Rutherford County Race relations 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 field offices for the State of Tennessee. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872. Series T142, [Reel number, Frame number/s]. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Copyright status	Public domain
Collection name	Freedman's Bureau Records