INDEX
Alabama, deposits in branch 43; does regular banking busi-
banks, 49; cashier short in ac- ness, 43; has specific privileges,
counts, 62, 66. 62; whites make use of bank, 63;
Allotment System for Negro sol- shortage at branch bank, 63.
diers, 9. Beecher, Edwin, cashier at Mont-
Alvord, John W., plans savings gomery, short in accounts, 62,
bank for Negroes, 23, 24; cor- 66.
responding secretary, 32; in- Black Codes, laws passed in 1865-
spector of Freedmen’s Bureau 1866 by Southern legislatures,
Schools, 32; vice-president of 13.
Freedmen’s Savings Bank, 32; Bliss, of New York, member of
travels in the South, 34; estab- Douglas committee, 108.
lished branch banks, 47; presi- Booth, William A., first president
dentofthebank,39,68,110; loses of Freedmen’s Savings Bank, 32.
influence, 69; is not reelected, Border States, slavery destroyed
74, 85; opposes investigation by in, 4.
Congress, 83; president of the Boston, assistant cashier in Wash-
Seneca Sandstone Company, 86. ington bank, 63.
Amendment of Freedmen’s Sav- Boyle, Juan, curious transaction
ings Bank charter in 1870, 136. with the bank, 97.
American Building Block Com- Bradford, ‘member ‘of Congress
pany, interest in bank, 40, 68. from Alabama, on Freedmen’s
Anderson, Rev. D. W., vice-presi- Savings Bank, 41, 112; member
dent of the bank, 39. of Douglas committee, 108.
Atlanta, Georgia, branch bank, Branch Banks, best of, 38; not all
cashier short in accounts, 61. pay expenses, 54; shortages, 66.
Augusta, Georgia, branch bank, 50. Brawley, estimate of Freedmen’s
Austin, representative from Ten- Savings Bank, 129.
nessee, introduces bill to pay Bronough, cashier at Vicksburg
depositors, 128, 159. branch, short in accounts, 66.
Balloch, Gen. G. W., of Freed- Bruce, B. K., Senator from Missis-
men’s Bureau, gives office space sippi; chairman of Senate com-
to branches of Freedmen’s Sav- mittee to investigate the Freed-
ings Bank, 36; a trustee of the men’s Savings Bank, 108.
bank, 39, 68, 76, 77, 110. Bruce committee, membership,
Baltimore branch bank, 50. 108; report, 112.
Banks, Gen. N. P., establishes Buckalew, senator from Pennsyl-
“Free Labor Bureau” in Louisi- vania, on Freedmen’s Savings
ana, 7; organizes “Free Labor Bank Bill, 25.
Bank,” 20. Butler, Gen. B. F., frees Negroes
Beaufort, S. C., military savings at Fortress Monroe, 6; estab-
bank established, 21; absorbed lishes his military savings bank
by Freedmen’s Savings Bank, at Norfolk, 21; “Free Labor
33; local board of branch bank, Bureau” in Louisiana, 7.
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