Title	Monthly Report of Operations and Conditions, March 1866
Record type	Report
Creator	Seage, John
Date of creation	1866-03-xx
Series	Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedman, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869
Description	This record is the narrative report of operations and conditions of the Freedmen’s Bureau and its activities in Rutherford County, Tennessee during March 1866. The report was written by John Seage, the superintendent for the Bureau in Rutherford County. The report notes the number of rations, clothing, and medicine units that were distributed to freedmen and refugees during the month. The report also provides the number of labor contracts arranged by the Bureau between employers and employees, most likely freedmen. The report provides an accounting of the Bureau’s “Fines and Forfeitures” for the month. The report also contains information on the state of widows and orphans in the county. The report notes the number of African American schools, students, and teachers in the county. The March 1866 report concludes with a discussion of the relations between whites and freedmen. In this portion of the report Superintendent Seage notes that on March 24, 1866, a white man named K. H. Henderson assaulted an African American male by hitting him on the head with a blacksmith’s hammer. The African American man died. The report concludes with a discussion of the action taken by the Bureau against K. H. Henderson.
Additional notes	Series M999, Reel 17, Frame 38-384.
Geographic location	Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Rutherford County (Tenn.)
Names that occur in the record	Seage, John Henderson K. 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