
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands , usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau ,[1] was a U.S. federal government agency established in 1865 to aid freedmen (freed slaves) in the South during the Reconstruction era of the United States, which attempted to change society in the former Confederacy.The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which established the Freedmen's Bureau on Marc...
Secret Service is any of a number of official and semi-official secret service operations conducted by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.==Overview==During the Civil War, a number of secret confederacy organizations emerged. Some of these organizations were under the direction of the Confederate government, others operated independently with government approval, wh...