Freedmen's Bureau Records: Will Coulter to Thomas P.
Jackson, March 24, 1868
Summary:
This letter transmits Jackson's appointment as agent (although the actual order
is not attached). It may be presumed that this order specified the terms of his
new post, as it was in March 1868 that Jackson ceased to serve as the Bureau
agent in Augusta County.
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Head-Quarters Assistant
Commissioner, District of Virginia,
Thos. P. Jackson
Agent, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
District
Virginia
March 24th 1868.
Richmond, Virginia,
Sir,
I enclose herewith your appointment as Agent of this Bureau. The accompanying oath, after being duly executed, will be returned to these Head Quarters.
By order of Brevet Brigadier General O. Brown, U.S.V.,
Assistant Commissioner
Will A. Coulter Brevet Captain US
Army
Acting Assistant Adjutant General
