Freedmen's Bureau Records Relating to Murders and Outrages (2024)

Records Relating to Murders and Outrages

Records relating to murders and outrages and reports of murders, outrages, and riots were submitted by subordinate and field officers in either tabular or narrative form. Although the term "outrage" meant any criminal offense, it usually referred to violent crimes by or against freedmen. The reports usually included the date of the incident and the county in which it took place; the names and race of the injured and accused parties; a brief description of the incident and the action taken, if any, by civil authorities and by the bureau; and the outcome. Most of the reports pertain to crimes committed by whites against freedmen, but crimes of whites against whites, freedmen against freedmen, and freedmen against whites were also reported. In addition to the reports, for some states there are registers of murders and outrages that contain the same type of information as the reports, and may have been compiled from them. There are also lists of murders of freedmen and lists and reports of arrests.

Alabama

List of Murders in the Dist. of Alabama 1866

Georgia

Report of outrages in the Savannah Sub District
Report of Persons Murdered in the District of Savannah, Ga. 1865 - 1866, Report of Freedmen who have been murdered and assaulted with intent to kill in the Sub District of Macon, Ga. During the year 1868 up to 31 Oct. 1868
Report of assaults with intent to murder, committed upon freed people in the division of Albany from January 1st to October 31st 1868
Reports of Cases of Outrage against Freedmen
1867 Report of assaults with intent to kill committed against Freed People in the sub district of Rome, Georgia
1865-66 Report of persons murdered in the district of Atlanta, Georgia
1866 Report of persons murdered in the district of Griffin, Georgia
1866 Report of persons murdered in Marietta, Georgia
1866 Report of persons murdered in the district of Macon, Georgia
1866 Report of persons murdered in the district of Columbus, Georgia
1865-1866 Report of persons murdered in the district of Rome, Georgia
1865-1866 Report of persons murdered in the district of Brunswick, Georgia
1865 Report of persons murdered in the district of Waynesboro, Georgia
1867 Report of persons murdered and assaulted in the sub district of Macon, Georgia
1867 Report of Freedmen murdered and assaulted in the sub district of Athens, Georgia
1867 Report of Freed People murdered or assaulted in the counties of Harris, Troup and Meriwether
1867 Report of Freed People murdered or assaulted in the sub district of Columbus, Georgia
1867 Report of Freedmen murdered or assaulted in Bainbridge
1867 Report of Freed People murdered or assaulted in the 2d division of Brunswick, sub district Georgia
1867 Report of Freed People murdered or assaulted in the 1st division of Brunswick, sub district Georgia
1867 Report of Freed People murdered or assaulted in the counties of Jefferson and Burke
Report of murders and assaults in Thomasville sub district from January 1st to October 1st 1868
Report of Freed People murdered or assaulted in the sub. district of Rome, Georgia from 1 January 1868 to October 1868
Report of assaults on Freedmen in the division of Cuthbert, Georgia from 1 January 1868 to 31 October 1868
Statement showing names of Freed People murdered or assaulted in Sumter, Schley and Webster Counties from January 1, 1868 to October 31, 1868
Report of Freed People murdered or assaulted in the sub. district of Augusta from January 1, 1868 to October 31, 1868 (includes Greene, Jefferson, Burke, Columbia, Lincoln, Richmond and Warren Counties)
Report of the number of Freedmen murdered, assaulted in the sub District of Athens from January 31 to October 31, 1868
Report of Freedpeople who have been murdered or attacked with intent to kill in the counties of Richmond, Columbia, Lincoln and Wilkes during the year commencing January 1st and ending October 31, 1868

Louisiana

Report of the number of murders and outrages committed in Louisiana since the organizing of the Bureau to February 20th, 1867 in which Freedmen have been victims or parties as reported to the Agents of the Bureau.
Freedmens Bureau - Synopsis of Murders Committed in Parish of St. Landry, Louisiana
Freedmens Bureau - Outrages Reported to Headquarters as committed in the Fifth Sub-District , Louisiana
Freedmen's Bureau Report of Outrages in Louisiana - Case of Mary Stewart
Freedmen's Bureau Report of Outrages in Louisiana - Letter from Mrs. H. Stein requesting help in arresting the murderer of her husband
Supplemental List of Murders and Outrages committed in the State of Louisiana During the Month of November 1868
List of Murders and Other Outrages reported to Headquarters Bu. R. F. and A. Lands, District of Louisiana during the month of November 1868

North Carolina

Freedmen's Bureau Reports of Arrests in North Carolina 1866 - 1868
Freedmen Bureau Report of Outrages in the State of North Carolina - June 1866 - January 1867
Freedmen's Bureau Report of Outrages in North Carolina - February 1867 - December 1867

South Carolina

Freedmens Bureau Reports of murders and outrages, Oct. 1865-Nov. 1868 in South Carolina
Freedmen's Bureau Report of Outrage in Barnwell, S. C. Sub-District
Freedmen's Bureau Report of the killing of Elbert MacAdams in Abbeville, S. C.

Tennessee

Report of Outrages Committed by Whites on Freedmen in the Memphis Sub District, Bureau R. F. A. L. For the month of May 1867
Affidavits related to the 1866 Memphis, Tennessee Riot
Affidavits Related to Outrages in Tennessee
Freedmen's Bureau Report of the 1866 Memphis, Tennessee Riot
Freedmen's Bureau Report of the 1868 Pulaski, Tennessee Riot
Freedmen's Bureau Report of Conditions in Trenton, Tennessee
Freedmen's Bureau Report of Conditions in LaGrange, Tennessee
Freedmen's Bureau Report of Conditions in Centreville, Tennessee
Freedmen's Bureau Report of Outrages from the Chattanooga Sub-District
Freedmen's Bureau Report of Outrages in Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Freedmen's Bureau - Tennessee Register of Outrages Oct. 1865 - July 1868
List of Outrages Perpetrated by the Whites Upon The Freedmen in the State of Tennessee from April 1865 to March 1866

Texas

committed on white men and freedmen in Washington County, Texas
Report of Union men and Freedmen who have been murdered by Rebel citizens since the collapse of the rebellion.
A report of Union men and Freedmen murdered in Grason and Fannin Counties, Texas on the close of the war.
Report of murders and outrages in Millican, Texas
Registered Reports of Murders and Outrages - Travis County
Testimony in relation to the murder of "Kit" by his former master John Echols
Records relating to murders and other criminal offenses - Carolina, Texas
Affidavit of Mark Walker (colored) of Freestone County, Texas
Affidavit of James Eaton Haynes (colored) of Freestone County, Texas
Letter from Judge William V. Trustall, Anderson Co., Texas
Records relating to murders and other criminal offenses - Caldwell, Texas
Records relating to murders and other criminal offenses - Brazos Bottom
Records relating to murders and other criminal offenses - Jefferson, Texas
Records relating to murders and other criminal offenses - Carolina, Texas
Freedmen's Bureau Report of Outrages from Galveston, Texas
Freedmen's Bureau Miscellaneous Reports of Murders and Outrages Committed in Texas - Letter from Hopkins County
Freedmens Bureau Report of outrages in Texas
Freedmen's Bureau records relating to murders and other criminal offenses committed in Texas - Letter from Wharton County
Freedmen's Bureau Report of Outrages in Marshall, Texas 1867
Freedmen’s Bureau Report of an Inspection of the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, Walker County

Virginia

Register of Outrages Committed on Freedmen pt. 3
Register of Outrages Committed on Freedmen pt. 2
Index to Register of Outrages in Virginia
Register of Outrages Committed on Freedmen
Freedmens Bureau Report of Abuses of Freedmen in Richmond, Virginia

Washington D. C.

Report of outrages committed on Union Citizens
Report of Outrages