Overreached on All Sides: The Freedmen's Bureau Administrators in Texas, 1865-1868 by William L. Richter

Overreached on All Sides: The Freedmen's Bureau Administrators in Texas, 1865-1868

William L. Richter

448 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

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At the end of the Civil War, the U.S. government recognized some responsibility for the former slaves that its battles and proclamations had freed. It established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands to foster adjustment to the ne...

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