| Record Group 105 | Pre-Bureau Records 1861-1863 | |||||
| Assistant Commissioners | Superintendents of Education | Louisiana * Fort Monroe, Virginia * Mississippi | ||||
| Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records (M1900-M1913) | ||||||
| Alabama | Arkansas | DC | Georgia | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maryland |
| Mississippi | Missouri | NC | SC | Tennessee | Texas | Virginia |
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National Archives
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Record Group 105), also known as the Freedmen’s Bureau, was established in the War Department by an act of Congress on March 3, 1865.