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.

In the same record group, RG 105, and related to records of the Bureau’s field offices for Louisiana, are those of the Bureau headquarters in Washington, DC, and previously microfilmed records of the Assistant Commissioner and the superintendent of education for Louisiana.

1. M742 – Headquarters, Selected Series of Records Issued by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 
2. M752 – Headquarters, Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 
3. M826, Records of the Assistant Commissionerfor the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 
4. M1026 – Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1864–1869 
5. M1027 – Assistant Commissioners, Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 
6. M1483 – Assistant Commissioners, Records of the New Orleans Field Offices, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 
7. M1875 – Marriage Records of the Office of the Commissioner, Washington Headquarters of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1861–1869

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Roll 8

1. Target 5: Volume 1 (131) 1864-68 Register of Conscripts
2. Target 6: Volume 2 (132) 1864-66 Register of Conscripts
3. Target 7: Volume 3 (133) 1864-65 Register of Conscripts
4. Target 8: Volume (142) 1864-67 Register of  Refugees  (White Southerners)

Roll 9

1. Target 4: Volume (145) 1859-66 Accounts

Roll 39

1. Target 1: 1864-68 Registers and Payrolls of Freedmen Employed on Plantations, Terre Bonne – West Feliciana

1. Target 2: Volume (93) Sept.1863 – Dec.1864 Registers and Payrolls of Freedmen Employed on Plantations, Terre Bonne – West Feliciana

Roll 40

1. Subordinate Office Plantation Department 1864-1868 Labor Contracts (Agreements with Freedmen – African Americans – Negroes and Mulattos) Ascension and Assumption
   
   

Roll 44

1. Subordinate Office Plantation Department 1864-1868:
   Labor Contracts (Agreements with Freedmen – African Americans – Negroes and Mulattos) East
   1. Baton Rouge
   2. East Feliciana
   3. Franklin
   4. Iberville

Roll 51

1. Subordinate Office Plantation Department 1864-1868
   Labor Contracts (Agreements with Freedmen – African Americans – Negroes and Mulattos) Miscellaneous Agreements

Roll 52

1. Target 3: Volume (121) Nov.-Dec. 1863
   Daily Record of Cotton Picked on the Corondolet Plantation
2. Target 5: Volume 1 (97) 1864-65
   Cash Account Books

Roll 68

1. Tax Receipts: Volume (151) 1864
   The single volume tax receipts (151) dated 1864 and arranged numerically. 

Roll 83

1. Target 10: Volume (159) 1864-65
   Register of Arrivals and Departures

Roll 7

1. Target 5
   Registers of Proceedings in Freedmen’s Court, Volume 1 (134) Nov. 1864-Oct. 1868
2. Target 10
   Complaints Volume 1 (138) Feb.-Mar.1863: Oct.-Dec. 1864
   
   

Roll 87

1. Target 2
   Court Records May-Dec 1864
2. Target 3
   Register of Rations Received at the Van Buren Hospital for Freedmen Volume (343) Jan.-Mar. 1864

Records of the field offices for the state of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1872 : NARA, RG 105, M1905

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