Dashed left edge = started before March 1865 ·
Dashed right edge = ongoing beyond March 1865
Events in March 1865 1
1865Freedmen's Bureau establishedUS federal agency created to aid former slavesCongress established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands to assist formerly enslaved people with food, housing, education, and legal support after the Civil War. It operated in the former Confederacy during the early years of Reconstruction.