Freedmen's Bureau Special Order
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of an order issued by Colonel Orlando Brown, superintendent of the 8th District of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Freedmen's Bureau) September 14, 1865 written from Christiansburg, Virginia. Special Order No. 12 requested the assistant superintendent of the bureau to report on the condition of freedmen in their districts in terms of whether they were willing to work for their former masters, how they were working, how their former masters treated them, whether they were willing to rent their former masters land. It also inquired if those who refused to work were doing so because of wages or "because they are disposed to be idle?"
Dates
- 1865
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish material from Freedmen's Bureau Special Order must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Extent
0.1 Cubic Feet (1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection consists of an order issued by Colonel Orlando Brown, superintendent of the 8th District of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Freedmen's Bureau) September 14, 1865 written from Christiansburg, Virginia. Special Order No. 12 requested the assistant superintendent of the bureau to report on the condition of freedmen in their districts in terms of whether they were willing to work for their former masters, how they were working, how their former masters treated them, whether they were willing to rent their former masters land. It also inquired if those who refused to work were doing so because of wages or "because they are disposed to be idle?"
Acquisition Information
The Freedmen's Bureau Special Order was purchased by Special Collections in April 2017.
Processing Information
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Freedmen's Bureau Special Order was completed in September, 2018.
- Title
- Freedmen's Bureau Special Order, 1865
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Jeff Felton, Graduate Intern and Kira A. Dietz, Archivist
- Date
- 2019 (CC0)
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech Repository
Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Drive
Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg Virginia 24061 US
540-231-6308
specref@vt.edu