White Alabamians receive rations from the
White Alabamians receive rations from the Freedmens Bureau in the summer of 1866. Claimants for relief plead their cases to Bureau Major Pierce who issues receiving orders on the commissary. The US Civil War ended a year earlier, leaving economic devastation and the death of 13% of Confederate military age men and the disability of many more
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Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
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Courtesy Everett Collection
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