Search Keyword Boolean Exact match Search only these record types: How to Search Advanced Search Showing 4735 ads Sort by: Title Refine search Source Select...Abilene Weekly Reflector (Abilene, KS)Afro-American (Baltimore, MD)Afro-American Advocate (Coffeyville, KS)Afro-American Ledger (Baltimore, MD)Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, VA)American Citizen (Canton, MS)Anglo-African (New York, NY)Anglo-African (New York)Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN)Arkansas Democrat (Little Rock, AR)Arkansas Weekly Mansion (Little Rock, AR)Asheville Daily Citizen (Asheville, NC)Atchison Daily Free Press (Atchison, KS)Atchison Weekly Champion (Atchison, KS)Baltimore Daily Commercial (Baltimore, MD)Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)Baptist Times (Garnett, KS)Baton Rouge Tri-weekly Gazette & Comet (Baton Rouge, LA)Battle Creek Daily Moon (Battle Creek, MI)Beaufort Republican (Beaufort, SC)Bee (Ripley, OH)Boston Post (Boston, MA)Brenham Weekly Banner (Brenham, TX)Brownlow's Knoxville Whig (Knoxville, TN)Bucyrus Journal (Bucyrus, OH)Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY)Buffalo Evening News (Buffalo, NY)Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, NC)Charleston Mercury (Charleston, SC)Charlevoix County Herald (East Jordan, MI)Chattanooga Daily Times (Chattanooga, TN)Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)Cincinnati Commercial Tribune (Cincinnati, OH)Clarksville Weekly Chronicle (Clarksville, TN)Cleveland Daily Leader (Cleveland, OH)Clinch Valley News (Tazewell Courthouse, VA)Colored American (Washington, DC)Commercial Advertiser (New York, NY)Daily Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, AR)Daily Chronicle (Knoxville, TN)Daily Dispatch (Richmond, VA)Daily Evening Bulletin (Maysville, KY)Daily Missouri Republican (St. Louis, MO)Daily Newbernian (New Bern, NC)Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA)Daily Press and Herald (Knoxville, TN)Daily Public Ledger (Maysville, KY)Daily Republican (Wilmington, DE)Daily Selma Messenger (Selma, AL)Daily State Gazette (Green Bay, WI)Dallas Express (Dallas, TX)Davenport Sunday Democrat (Davenport, IA)Dziennik ChicagoskiElyria Independent Democrat (Elyria, OH)Eufala Daily Times (Eufala, AL)Evening Post (Wilmington, NC)Evening Star (Washington, DC)Fannie to Norfleet Perry, December 28, 1862, Person Family Papers, 1754-1971 (Volume/Box: Box 1), David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University, https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/personfamily.Fanny to “Sister” (unnamed), August 5, 1867, Slade Family Papers, 1751-1929 and undated (Volume/Box: Box 3), David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University, https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/sladefamily_aspace_b425eb8a8f1f965adbccfdd7 6a3dcb51.Fayette County Herald (Washington Court House, OH)Fort Scott Weekly Monitor (Fort Scott, KS)Fort Worth Gazette (Fort Worth, TX)Frances Johnson, Statement to J.M. Kelly (Notary Public), March 1865, Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869, Registered Letters Received, Entered in Register 1, E – L, Roll 7, 1865. NMAAHC.FB.M999. 1st Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662426440430-0?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bchildren%2522%26page%3D1 2nd Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662426440430-1?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bchildren%2522%26page%3D1 3rd Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662426440430-2?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bchildren%2522%26page%3D1 4th Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662426440430-3?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bchildren%2522%26page%3D1Frank Marten to Colonel Joseph Perkins, letter, 1874. Fluvanna Historical Society.Frederick Douglass' Paper (Rochester, NY)Freedmen’s Record (Boston, MA)Freeman (Indianapolis, IN)Freeman (New York, NY)Freeport Journal-Standard (Freeport, IL)Freeport Journal-Standard (Freeport, IL)Fremont Semi-Weekly Herald (Fremont, NE)Gallipolis Journal (Gallipolis, OH)George Gillem, Testimony to Michael Walsh, January 24, 1867, Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869, Registered Letters Received, Entered in Register 2 and 3, T – W, 1867. NMAAHC.FB.M999. https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662426480461-4?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bwife%2522%26page%3D1Globe (Nashville, TN)Globe (New York, NY)Gold Hill Daily News (Gold Hills, NV) (reprinted, with editorial commentary, from the Indianapolis Evening News)Greenville Advance Argus (Greenville, PA)Harrisburg Daily Independent (Harrisburg, PA)Harrisburg Telegraph (Harrisburg, PA)Herald of Kansas (Topeka, KS)Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)Huntsville Gazette (Huntsville, AL)Huntsville Journal (Huntsville, AL)Indianapolis Sentinel (Indianapolis, IN)Iowa State Bystander (Des Moines, IA)Isaac A. Rosenkranz to Lieutenant John M. Foot, letter, April 19, 1868, Records of the Field Offices for the State of North Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872, Subordinate Field Offices, Washington D.C., Letters Sent, Letters Sent, Volume 246, Roll 64, Jan. 1867-Oct. 1868. NMAAHC.FB.M1909. https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662424964359-3?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%25E2%2580%259Cmy%2Bdaughter%25E2%2580%259D%26page%3D4J. B. Littlejohn to Captain Hay, letter, April 15, 1867, Records of the Field Offices for the State of North Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Subordinate Field Offices, Franklinton (Assistant Commissioner), Letters Received, Roll 14, Jan.-July 1867. NMAAHC.FB.M1909. 1st Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662424860904-0?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3Dmy%2Bfather%26page%3D0 2nd image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662424860904-1?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3Dmy%2Bfather%26page%3D0Jack Hannibal to “Mistress” (unnamed), August 9, 1878, Jack Hannibal Papers, 1878 (Sec. A Box 58 items1 c.1), David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University, https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE002567178.Jersey City News (Jersey City, NJ)Juniata Sentinel and Republican (Mifflintown, PA)Kansas City Globe (Kansas City, KS)Keowee Courier (Pickens, SC)Knoxville Daily Tribune (Knoxville, TN)Knoxville Press and Messenger (Knoxville, TN)Las Vegas Weekly Optic and Stock Grower (East Las Vegas, NM)Lawrence Daily World (Lawrence, KS)Leavenworth Daily Conservative (Leavenworth, KS)Liberator (Boston, MA)Livingston Journal (Livingston, AL)Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA)Lost Friends AdLouisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY)Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY)Lucy Ross to General O.O. Howard, letter, October 31, 1866, Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Letters Received, Entered in Register 8, R, Aug-Dec. 1866. NMAAHC.FB.M752. 1st Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662425788613-2?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bchildren%2522%26page%3D0 2nd Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662425788613-3?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bchildren%2522%26page%3D0Martha Cooley, Testimony to J.M. Kelly, Notary Public, Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869, Registered Letters Received, Entered in Register 1, E – L, 1865. NMAAHC.FB.M999. https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662426440432-4?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bchildren%2522%26page%3D0Maryville Republican (Maryville, TN)Memphis Daily Appeal (Memphis, TN)Memphis Daily Post (Memphis, TN)Memphis Evening Post (Memphis, TN)Mexico Weekly Ledger (Mexico, MO)Minneapolis Journal (Minneapolis, MN)Montgomery Daily Advertiser (Montgomery, AL)Nashville Globe (Nashville, TN)Nashville Union and American (Nashville, TN)Natchez Weekly Democrat (Natchez, MS)National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York, NY)National Republican (Washington, DC)National Tribune (Washington, DC)New Bern Weekly Journal (New Bern, NC)New Era (Washington, DC)New National Era (Washington, DC)New Orleans Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA)New Orleans Republican (New Orleans, LA)New Orleans Tribune (New Orleans, LA)New York Age (New York, NY)New York Herald (New York, NY)Newbern Journal of Commerce (New Bern, NC)Newburgh Journal (reprinted from)Norfolk Virginian (Norfolk, VA)Omaha Daily Bee (Omaha, NE)Osawatomie Graphic (Osawatomie, KS)Ottumwa Courier (Ottumwa, IA)Peninsula Enterprise (Accomack Courthouse, VA)People's Advocate (Washington, DC)Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)Pittsburgh Dispatch (Pittsburgh, PA)Port Tobacco Times and Charles County Advertiser (Port Tobacco, MD)Portland Daily Press (Portland, ME)Provincial Freeman and Weekly Advertiser (Windsor/Toronto/Chatham, Canada West)Provincial Freeman and Weekly Advertiser (Windsor/Toronto/Chatham, Canada West)Public Ledger (Memphis, TN)Public Ledger (Philadelphia, PA)Public Opinion (Chambersburg, PA)Raleigh Daily News (Raleigh, NC)Reading Times and Dispatch (Reading, PA)Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870, Roll 10, Letters Received, 1867, A – F. 1st Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662426331135-0?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bhusband%2522%26page%3D37 2nd Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662426331135-1?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bhusband%2522%26page%3D37Records of the Field Offices for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662425034168-2?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bhusband%2522%26page%3D49Records of the Field Offices for the State of North Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Subordinate Field Offices, Beaufort (Subassistant Commissioner), Letters and Endorsements Received and Sent, Volume 67, Roll 5, Jan. 1866-July 1867. https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662424834349-1?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bhusband%2522%26page%3D17Records of the Field Offices for the State of North Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Subordinate Field Offices, Greensboro, North Carolina, (Subassistant Commissioner), Register of Complaints and Letters Sent Relating to Complaints, Volume 108, Roll 20, June 1867-Oct. 1868. NMAAHC.FB.M1909. https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662424871079-1?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bdaughter%2522%26page%3D3Records of the Field Offices for the State of North Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Subordinate Field Offices, Plymouth (Subassistant Commissioner), Registered Letters Received, June 1867-Dec. 1868. NMAAHC.FB.M1909. https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662424934570-4?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bsister%2522%26page%3D2Records of the Field Offices for the State of North Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Subordinate Field Offices, Rocky Mount (Assistant Superintendent), Letters Received, Dec. 1865-Aug. 1868. NMAAHC.FB.M1909. https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662424945206-0?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bdaughter%2522%26page%3D4Records of the Field Offices for the State of North Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Subordinate Field Offices, Salisbury (Superintendent of the Western District), Letters Received, 1867. NMAAHC.FB.M1909. 1st Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662424950828-2?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bdaughter%2522%26page%3D5 2nd Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662424950829-0?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bdaughter%2522%26page%3D5Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Letters Received, Entered in Register 10, June-August 1867. NMAAHC.FB.M752 1st Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662425796801-3?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bhusband%2522%26page%3D15 2nd Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662425796801-4?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bhusband%2522%26page%3D15Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Letters Received, Entered in Register 13, W, July-Dec. 1868.NMAAHC.FB.M752. 1st Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662425816188-0?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bbrother%2522%2B%2522inquire%2522%26page%3D0 2nd Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662425816188-1?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bbrother%2522%2B%2522inquire%2522%26page%3D0Reno Gazette-Journal (Reno, NV)Republican Banner (Nashville, TN)Richmond Daily Dispatch (Richmond, VA)Richmond Democrat (Richmond, MO)Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA)Rock Island Argus (Rock Island, IL)Rody Jordan to Pearce Stephens, March 26, 1860, Alexander H. Stephens Papers in Correspondence, 1860 Jan-Aug, letter 52, Digital Collections of David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University, https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r3tb0z45g.Sacramento Daily Record-Union (Sacramento, CA)Saint Mary's Beacon (Leonardtown, MD)San Francisco Call (San Francisco, CA)San Francisco Elevator (San Francisco, CA)Sarah “Sally” Norral to Emma Mordecai (maiden name), November 23, 1867, Jacob Mordecai Papers, 1784-1936 (Volume/Box: Box 6, c.1), David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University, https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/mordecaijacob.Sarah Lyons to Major General C.R. Wood, letter, 1866, Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870, Letters Received, H – P, Subseries, 1866, NARA Publication Number M809. 1st Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662426333274-1?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bhusband%2522%26page%3D5 2nd Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662426333274-2?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bhusband%2522%26page%3D5 3rd Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/freedmens-bureau/record/fbs-1662423774659-1662426333275-0?destination=%2Fexplore%2Ffreedmens-bureau%2Fsearch%3Fedan_q%3D%2522my%2Bhusband%2522%26page%3D5Souhwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)South Carolina Leader (Charleston, SC)South Carolina Leader (Charleston)Southern Republican (Demopolis, AL)Southwestern Christain Advocate (New Orleans, LA)Southwestern 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