Freedmen's Bureau Personnel

  • Bvt. Brig. Gen. Horace M. Brooks
    Freedmen's Bureau Assistant Commissioner for Maryland and Delaware from January, 1868 to August, 1868.
  • Bvt. Col. William H. Weigel
    Freedmen's Bureau Assistant Adjutant General
  • Lt. Charles McDougall
    Freedmen's Bureau Superintendent of Education for Maryland and Delaware.
  • Bvt. Capt. Edward Knower
    Freedmen's Bureau Assistant Commissioner for Maryland and Delaware
  • William Howard Day
    Freedmen's Bureau Superintendent of Schools for Maryland & Delaware beginning September 1, 1867. An African American abolitionist, minister, and editor originally from New York City.
  • Capt. Samuel J. Wright
    Freedmen's Bureau Special Agent and Disbursing Officer for the District of Columbia, from July, 1867 to March, 1868.
  • Maj. W.L. Van Derlip
    Freedmen's Bureau Superintendent of Education for the District of Columbia from December, 1869 to at least August, 1870.
  • Bvt. Maj. D. G. Swaim
    Freedmen's Bureau Superintendent of Education for the District of Columbia from October, 1869 to December, 1869.
  • Edward H. Monteith
    Freedmen's Bureau Disbursing Officer for Maryland and Delaware (and later District of Columbia). Appointed March 22, 1868.
  • Rev. John Kimball
    Freedmen's Bureau Superintendent of Education for the District of Columbia from August, 1865, to October, 1869.
  • Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard
    Freedmen's Bureau Commissioner from its inception in 1865 to its discontinuance in 1872.
  • Bvt. Maj. Gen. Edgar M. Gregory
    Freedmen's Bureau Assistant Commissioner for Maryland and Delaware from August, 1866 to January, 1868.
  • Rev. John W. Alvord
    Freedmen's Bureau General Superintendent of Education, 1867-1869.