Freedmen’s Bureau (1864–1880)
Freedmen’s Bureau Cohabitation Records (1865–1880)
The Cohabitation Records, officially titled, "Register of Colored Persons, Augusta County, State of Virginia, Cohabiting Together as Husband and Wife," are a record of free African American families living in Augusta County immediately after the end of the Civil War.
Freedmen’s Bureau Letters (1864–1870)
The work of the Bureau of Freedmen, Refugees, and Abandoned Lands, commonly known as the Freedmen’s Bureau, combined care for millions of newly freed slaves and the administration of Southern lands seized by Union forces during the war.