Freedmen

The mention of arms in Freedmen Bureau Act was because the former rebel states was then under the jurisdiction of the United States and not recognized states.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Despite High Court Skepticism, Advocates Defend Privileges Clause Push” 2010

The move strips 2,800 African-Americans, who are known as "Freedmen," of benefits including medical care, food stipends and assistance for low-income homeowners.

NPR Topics: News 2011

This means that approximately 1,500 descendants of former slaves who are known as Freedmen descendants are Cherokee citizens today because each has an Indian ancestor on the Dawes Rolls.

Chad Smith: Scorched-Earth Policy Again 2008

LEWIS: Named after General Clinton B. Fisk, one of the Union Army officers who fought in the Tennessee theater and then took employment or served what was called the Freedmen's Bureau, that quasi government agency established to sort of put the South back on its feet.

W.E.B. DuBois: The Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 1994

Emancipation Proclamation seemed but to broaden and intensify the difficulties; and so at last there arose in the South a government of men called the Freedmen's Bureau, which lasted, legally, from 1865 to

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

Congress has authority to direct that this military jurisdiction shall be exercised by that branch of the army known as the Freedmen's

History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States William Horatio Barnes

In effect, this tale of the dawn of Freedom is an account of that government of men called the Freedmen's Bureau, -- one of the most singular and interesting of the attempts made by a great nation to grapple with vast problems of race and social condition.

The Souls of Black Folk 1915

In effect, this tale of the dawn of Freedom is an account of that government of men called the Freedmen's Bureau, -- one of the most singular and interesting of the attempts made by a great nation to grapple with vast problems of race and social condition.

The Souls of Black Folk 1903

In effect, this tale of the dawn of Freedom is an account of that government of men called the Freedmen’s Bureau, —one of the most singular and interesting of the attempts made by a great nation to grapple with vast problems of race and social condition.

II. Of the Dawn of Freedom. William Edward Burghardt 1903

Peremptory military commands, this way and that, could not answer the query; the Emancipation Proclamation seemed but to broaden and intensify the difficulties; and so at last there arose in the South a government of men called the Freedmen's Bureau, which lasted, legally, from 1865 to 1872, but in a sense from 1861 to 1876, and which sought to settle the Negro problems in the United States of America.

The Freedmen's Bureau 1901