Excerpt from The Freedmen's Bureau: A Chapter in the History of Reconstruction
Agitation of benevolent societies.-bill for bureau of emancipation, December 1863. - Discussion of it. - Failure to pass. - Discussion at next session. - B&reau established March I, 1866. - Provisions of the act.
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