Contemporary Texas History

ALT Graphic, including a black and white, handwritten letter from the Freedmen's Bureau Records (left). A typed portion of the letter (right) reads: "Wharton, Texas, August 5th, 1868....Mrs. Smith is a desirable teacher in as much as she is very attentive to her scholars and particularly so as to their moral conduct and general behavior." Texas Education, Letters Received, Registered Letters Received, Register 2, H-M, 1868-1970, Part 3, Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Smithsonian Transcription Center, https://transcription.si.edu/transcribe/30377/NMAAHC-007675834_00621.

ALT Graphic including a black and white, handwritten letter from the Freedmen's Bureau records. On the right is a quote from the letter: "Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia, February 20th, 1867. "The affidavit, asks the aid of the 'Bureau' to restore her child. Isabella Harris, the colored woman who signs the affidavit, is a resident of this town, and has requested one, to invoke your aid to have the warrant against the two white men therein named, A.J. Able and H.S. Linton, executed, out of the limits of this state - to wit at Monticello Florida -- and her child Edna or Eddie (aged 15 (or 16) restored to her, from the same place."