The Bureau of Refugees And Abandoned Lands Was In Texas — Commonly known as the “Freedmen’s Bureau” the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands was established in the War Department on March 3, 1865 (13 Stat. 507), and extended twice by Maj. Gen. Oliver Otis Howard. In January 1869, by an act of July 25, 1868 (15 Stat. 193), its…