United States, Freedmen's Bureau Records of Persons and Articles Hired, 1865-1872

Index and images of monthly reports of articles and persons hired by the Bureau's field office. The principal name in the index is either of the person employed or the person who owned the article. The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (often called the Freedmen’s Bureau) was created in 1865 at the end of the American Civil War to supervise relief efforts including education, health care, food and clothing, refugee camps, legalization of marriages, employment, labor contracts, and securing back pay, bounty payments and pensions.