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| | Inventory of the William Royal Papers, 1863-1869 |
 | | William Royal, originally from New York State, was captain of Company F, 9th Colored Infantry Regiment, during the Civil War, and, after the war, a Freedmen's Bureau (Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands) agent in Georgia. |
 | | The letters were sent to Royal from various correspondents and mainly relate to events in the daily lives of their writers, but there is some discussion of Royal's service in the Freedmen's Bureau, the rising presence of the Ku Klux Klan, and the presidential election of 1868. |
 | | Frequent writers include Lydia Royal of Albany, N.Y., William Royal's sister; F. Sartell of Charlestown, Mass., a missionary in Georgia and friend of William Royal; and S. Fergeus, of Lewisburg, Pa., and Grace Martin, of Canandaigua, N.Y, both friends of William Royal. |
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