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Established in 1865 to help the nearly four million newly freedmen and women manage their transition from enslavement to citizenship, the Freedmen’s Bureau assisted with land and property, relief programs, medical care, and educational support—among many other important endeavors.

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FamilySearch - Tennessee, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872 ^FREE

This collection corresponds with NARA microfilm publication M1911, Records of the Field Offices for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872.

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Index of census returns, registers, and lists of freedmen. The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (often called the Freedmen’s Bureau) was created in 1865 at the end of the American Civil War to supervise relief efforts including education, health care, food and clothing, refugee camps, legalization of marriages, employment, labor contracts, and securing back pay, bounty payments and pensions. These records include letters and endorsements sent and received, account books, applications for rations, applications for relief, court records, labor contracts, registers of bounty claimants, registers of complaints, registers of contracts, registers of disbursements, registers of freedmen issued rations, registers of patients, reports, rosters of officers and employees, special and general orders and circulars received, special orders and circulars issued, records relating to claims, court trials, property restoration, and homesteads

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These records consist of unbound marriage certificates, marriage licenses, monthly reports of marriages and other proofs of marriages.

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Index and images of records relating to Freedmen's court cases including proceedings, registers of cases tried, charges and specifications, papers, fines imposed, and affidavits.

FamilySearch - United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872 ^FREE New!

Images of the records of the Superintendent of Education and the Education Division of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (often called the Freedmen’s Bureau).

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Freedmen's Bureau Field Offices New!

This is a map of Field Offices established by the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Land, also known as the Freedmen's Bureau. The record of these offices have been microfilmed by the National Archives.

Mapping the Freedmen's Bureau

This site is devoted to pointing out the many places that affected the newly freed survivors of slavery. The sites where Freedman’s Bureau offices were located are marked for you. In addition other institutions that served former slaves, are marked – the branches of the Freedman’s Savings Bank, Freedmen Schools, contraband camps, and even the location of battle sites where men who were in the US Colored Troops fought.