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Mississippi - M1907

  • Mississippi (M1914) Pre-Bureau Descriptive Pamphlet

    • Descriptive pamphlets are important when researching the Freedmen’s Bureau records because they typically provide detailed indexes and explanations of the contents

  • Mississippi (M826) Descriptive Pamphlet
    • Records of many state Assistant Commissioners and superintendents of education were filmed in previous years and should be researched for more information on activities at the local level.
  • Mississippi (M1907) Descriptive Pamphlet

    • Descriptive pamphlets are important when researching the Freedmen’s Bureau records because they typically provide detailed indexes and explanations of the contents within a collection of historical records.

Most of the field office records of the Assistant Commissioner for Mississippi are available in microfilm publication M826, listed below. Those not previously filmed are reproduced on roll 65 of this publication. In the same record group, RG 105, and related to records of the Bureau’s field offices for Mississippi are those of the Bureau headquarters in Washington, DC, and of the Bureau’s field offices in Louisiana. These record series are available in the following National Archives microfilm publications:

 

  1. 007630062 – Roll 23

  2. 007630073 – Roll 34

  3. 007630074 – Roll 35

  4. 007630083 – Roll 44

  5. 007630086 – Roll 47

  6. 007630087 – Roll 48

  7. 007630088 – Roll 49

  8. 007630089 – Roll 50

  9. 007630090 – Roll 51

  10. 007630091 – Roll 52

  11. 007630092 – Roll 53

  12. 007630093 – Roll 54

  13. 007630094 – Roll 55

  14. 007630095 – Roll 56

  15. 007630096 – Roll 57

  16. 007630103 – Roll 64

  1. 007630050 – Roll 11

  2. 007630051 – Roll 12

  3. 007630054 – Roll 15

  4. 007630055 – Roll 16

  5. 007630056 – Roll 17

  6. 007630058 – Roll 19

  7. 007630064 – Roll 25

  8. 007630065 – Roll 26

  9. 007630068 – Roll 29

  10. 007630069 – Roll 30

  11. 007630070 – Roll 31

  12. 007630071 – Roll 32

  13. 007630074 – Roll 35

  14. 007630076 – Roll 37

  15. 007630081 – Roll 42

  16. 007630082 – Roll 43

  17. 007630086 – Roll 47

  18. 007630087 – Roll 48

  19. 007630103 – Roll 64

  20. 007630104 – Roll 65

  1. Mississippi (M1914) Pre-Bureau Descriptive Pamphlet Descriptive pamphlets are important when researching the Freedmen’s Bureau records because they typically provide detailed indexes and explanations of the contents
  2. Mississippi (M826) Descriptive Pamphlet Records of many state Assistant Commissioners and superintendents of education were filmed in previous years and should be researched for more information on activities at the local level.
  3. Mississippi (M1907) Descriptive Pamphlet Descriptive pamphlets are important when researching the Freedmen’s Bureau records because they typically provide detailed indexes and explanations of the contents within a collection of historical records.

Most of the field office records of the Assistant Commissioner for Mississippi are available in microfilm publication M826, listed below. Those not previously filmed are reproduced on roll 65 of this publication. In the same record group, RG 105, and related to records of the Bureau’s field offices for Mississippi are those of the Bureau headquarters in Washington, DC, and of the Bureau’s field offices in Louisiana. These record series are available in the following National Archives microfilm publications:

 

  1. M742, Selected Series of Records Issued by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872
  2. M752, Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 M803, Records of the Education Division of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1871
  3. M1914, Records of the Mississippi Freedmen’s Department (“Pre-Bureau Records”), Office of the Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1865
  4. M1026, Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1864–1869
  5. M1027, Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
  6. M1875, Marriage Records of the Office of the Commissioner, Washington Headquarters of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1861–1869
  1. 007630050 – Roll 11 Surgeon in Chief, Subordinate Field Offices Aberdeen  (Subassistant Commissioner), Brookhaven  (Subassistant Commissioner)

  2. 007630051 – Roll 12 Brookhaven  (Subassistant Commissioner), Canton,  Charleston,  Columbia,  Columbus  (Subassistant Commissioner)

  3. 007630054 – Roll 15 Columbus  (Subassistant Commissioner), Corinth  (Subassistant Commissioner)

  4. 007630055 – Roll 16 Corinth  (Subassistant Commissioner), Davis Bend, De Kalb  (Agent), Forest  (see Lake Station), Friars  Point (Subassistant Commissioner)

  5. 007630056 – Roll 17 Greenville  (Agent)

  6. 007630058 – Roll 19 Grenada  (Subassistant Commissioner)

  7. 007630064 – Roll 25 Jackson  (Subassistant Commissioner), Lake Station  (Subassistant Commissioner), Lauderdale  (Subassistant Commissioner), Lauderdale  (Subassistant Commissioner)

  8. 007630065 – Roll 26 Jackson  (Subassistant Commissioner), Lake Station  (Subassistant Commissioner), Lauderdale  (Subassistant Commissioner), Lauderdale  (Subassistant Commissioner)

  9. 007630068 – Roll 29 Lauderdale  (Subassistant Commissioner), Lauderdale  (Howard Hospital and Asylum), Lexington  (Agent), Louisville  (Agent), Macon  (Subassistant Commissioner)

  10. 007630069 – Roll 30 Macon  (Subassistant Commissioner), McNutt (see East Pascagoula), Magnolia  (Subassistant Commissioner), Meridian  (Subcommissioner)

  11. 007630070 – Roll 31 Meridian  (Subcommissioner)

  12. 007630071 – Roll 32 Meridian  (Subcommissioner), Natchez  (Southern District of Mississippi)

  13. 007630074 – Roll 35 Natchez (Southern District of Mississippi)

  14. 007630076 – Roll 37 Natchez  (Subassistant Commissioner)

  15. 007630081 – Roll 42 Port Gibson  (Subcommissioner), Rodney (Provost Marshal of Freedmen, see Port Gibson), Rosedale,  Skipswiths  Landing  (Subcommissioner), Starkville  (Agent)

  16. 007630082 – Roll 43 Starkville  (Agent), Tupelo  (Subassistant Commissioner), Vicksburg  (Assistant Commissioner for the Western District of Mississippi)

  17. 007630086 – Roll 47 Vicksburg  (Subcommissioner)

  18. 007630087 – Roll 48 Vicksburg  (Subcommissioner), Vicksburg  (Special Agent of the Treasury Department)

  19. 007630103 – Roll 64 Vicksburg  (Freedmen’s Hospital), Washington Home Colony,  Winchester  (Subassistant Commissioner), Woodville  (Assistant Subcommissioner and Agent), Yazoo City  (Subcommissioner)

  20. 007630104 – Roll 65 Yazoo City  (Subcommissioner), Office of the  Assistant  Commissoner  Other Records 

Film Number M1869-M2029

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