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Washington Wilkes Co. Georgia
20 February 1867

Commanding Officer
Freedmen's Bureau
Savannah Georgia

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

Sir:

The accompanying certified copy of a warrant and affidavit will acquaint you with the facts of the case in which the injured party. The affidavit, asks the aid of the "Bureau" to restore her child Isabella Harris, the colored woman who signs the affidavit, is a resident of this town, and has requested one, to invoke your aid to have the warrant against the two white men therein named, A.J. Able and H.S. Linton, executed, out of the limits of this state - to wit at Monticello Florida -- and her child Edna or Eddie (aged 15 (or 16)) restored to her, from the same place.

I am the County Solicitor of this County and as such, the woman Isabella applied to me for aid which I could extend only thus far - to have the warrant issued--the Sheriff is unable to find the Colored Defendant "Cap Colley" who has absconded on account of this affair. The others being out of jurisdiction I see no means available to an indigent negro to secure this arrest, unless you will do it for her -

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