Freedmen's Bureau Report

ID: 1230
This file appears in: Frankfort Barracks

This report from a Freedmen’s Bureau agent in Kentucky details of the atrocities committed against the state’s African Americans shortly after the end of the Civil War. Courtesy of the National Archives.

This file appears in: Frankfort Barracks

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #2061 in Frankfort notes the location of barracks built by the federal government to house soldiers serving in Reconstruction-era Kentucky. The immediate post-Civil War period in…