Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2

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[231] who had in their possession or under their control any abandoned or confiscable lands, houses, or tenements, to transfer them to some duly authorized officer of the Freedmen's Bureau.

Further, that the President's order being obeyed, the greater portion of abandoned property in the insurrectionary districts held by Treasury agents, came into possession of the Bureau; not only abandoned lands, but all abandoned real property, except such as had been retained by military authority for strictly military purposes.

The accompanying table will give the amount in our hands till near the close of the first year:

States.	Amount of property now in posseision amount of Bureau of Rufugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands				Amount of property returned
	Number of Acres of Land				Number of pieces of town property.	Number of Acres Land.	Number of pieces of town property.
	Cultivated	Uncultivated	Unclassified	Aggregate
Georgia and South Carolina	9,364	50,799	374,837	435,000	398		384
Kentucky and Tennessee	10,177	29,072	25,880	65,129	414
Missouri and Arkansas	18,736			18,736	72
Alabama			2,116	2,116	13
Virginia	2,625	49,110	23,918	75,653	34	26,730	310
North Carolina	4,868	9,207	22,267	36,342	112	50,029	287
Mississippi and Louisiana (part)	50,751	4	8,525	59,280	52	11,411	60
Louisiana	62,528			62,528	501		136
Maryland and Virginia (part)	2,282	5,027	6,497	13,806
Total	161,331	143,219	464,040	768,590	1, 59688,170	1,177

By the table we see that we had in December, 1865, already under cultivation 161,331 acres; and that for the use of refugees and freedmen there were 768,590