Letter from Wager Swayne in New York City to Thomas M. Owen, director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery.
During Reconstruction, Swayne served as the assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for Alabama. In the letter, he encloses a transcript of General Order No. 7 from August 4, 1865, noting that "It is within the truth to say that this order played an important part in settling the h...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | During Reconstruction, Swayne served as the assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for Alabama. In the letter, he encloses a transcript of General Order No. 7 from August 4, 1865, noting that "It is within the truth to say that this order played an important part in settling the heaviest problem of that day, the status of the freeman in the South." (The order gave the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freed persons, and Abandoned Lands the authority to protect the African Americans' civil rights from laws and codes that violated their freedom.) |
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