mar 3, 1865 - Freedmen's Bureau
Description:
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, operated as a U.S. government agency from 1865 to 1872, after the American Civil War, to direct "provisions, clothing, and fuel ... for the immediate and temporary shelter and supply of destitute and suffering refugees and freedmen and their wives and children".Initiated by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, the F. Bureau was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War.[3] The Freedmen's Bureau was an important agency of early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South. The Bureau became a part of the United States Department of War, as it was the only agency with an existing organization that could be assigned to the South.
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Date:
mar 3, 1865
Now
~ 161 years ago