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FREEDMEN. LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING A COMMUNICATION FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR IN REFERENCE TO THE OPERATIONS OF THE BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS.

Washington: 39th Cong., 1st Sess. HED123, 1866. 21, [3 blanks] pp. Caption title as issued. Disbound, one light persistent spot, else Very Good.

Secretary of War Stanton reports on the operations of the Freedmen's Bureau in North Carolina, particularly concerns that the Bureau had been administered incompetently, indifferently, and by self-interested officials. Attitudes of the white population are reported and evaluated. Item #38234

Price: $75.00