Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

The Freedmen's Bureau, as it was often called, was established in the U.S. War Department by an act of March 3, 1865, nearly a year before the end of the Civil War. The bureau supervised all relief and educational activities relating ...

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