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Reports of Numbers of Persons Issued Rations, Clothing, and Medicines, May 1868

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Title	Reports of Numbers of Persons Issued Rations, Clothing, and Medicines, May 1868
Record type	Report
Creator	Seage, John
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 record is a letter from Rutherford County superintendent John Seage to Bureau official H. S. Brown, explaining his April report on rations and medicines issued. It is difficult to tell from the muddled handwriting of Seage, but it appears that he was questioned as to why the Freedmen’s Bureau in the county drew no rations from the government during the month of April 1866.
Additional notes	Series M999, Reel 19, [Frame 547-548]
Excerpt from record	The title of this record is: “ Murfreesboro Tenn. May 10th 1866 Seage John"
Geographic location	Rutherford County (Tenn.)
Names that occur in the record	Seage, John
Subject (LC)	African Americans--Tennessee African Americans--Tennessee--Social conditions--19th century Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Tennessee--Rutherford County Rutherford County (Tenn.) 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