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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Head Quarters Assistant Commissioner State of Virginia, Circular No. 11
Virginia's General Assembly passed legislation in 1866 to legalize the "Marriages of Colored Persons now cohabiting as Husband and Wife." Freedmen's Bureau agents were authorized to compile registers of cohabiting couples who considered themselves…
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, Circular No. 2
Major General Oliver O. Howard took command of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands in May 1865 and appointed commissioners for "the insurrectionary states." He ordered them to "introduce practical systems of compensated labor" and to…
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