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“My dear Wife”
Behind Union lines, under a “flag of truce,” Confederate surgeon Robert J. Bell wrote to his wife of the death of her brother Sylvester at the Battle of Helena...
Land Restored
This document authorized the return of land seized by the Bureau to Jesse J. Busby of Jefferson County, Arkansas. Former Confederates were required to swear their...
Married at 80
While many slave couples formed lasting bonds during their enslavement, slave marriages had no legal foundation or protection. The abolishment of slavery not only...
Teacher's Report and Responsibilities
This February 1865 report of teachers H.M and H.S. Barstow includes numbers of students taught, the number of hours spent teaching, and the condition of the school....
Who were they?
We know little about the three Confederate soldiers listed on this 1862 coffin receipt. Pvt. John Y. Pitts was mustered into Captain Barnes’s Company of the...
Working for the Freedmen's Bureau
This monthly report by Lt. S. Geisreiter, Superintendent of the Freedmen's Bureau in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, reports on the monthly expenses of his office in September...
Search results 1 - 6 of 6 for the tag Arkansas