Freedmen's Bureau
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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. government agency of early post American Civil War Reconstruction, assisting free
A Bureau agent stands between a group of Whites and a group of freedmen.
The Freedmen's Bureau office in Memphis, Tennessee, 1866
Marriage certificate issued by the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, Wilson County, Tennessee, 1866
The Misses Cooke's school room, Freedmen's Bureau, Richmond, Virginia, 1866
Reconstruction era
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The Reconstruction era, often simply called Reconstruction, was a period in United States history that followed the American Civil War and was dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges
The distribution of wealth per capita in 1872, illustrating the disparity between North and South in that period
The Southern economy had been ruined by the war. Charleston, South Carolina: Broad Street, 1865
A political cartoon of Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln, 1865, entitled "The Rail Splitter At Work Repairing the Union". The caption reads (Johnson): "Take it quietly Uncle Abe and I will draw it closer than ever." (Lincoln): "A few more stitches Andy and the good old Union will be mended."
Monument in honor of the Grand Army of the Republic, organized after the war