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[[3 column table]] [[preprinted]] WHEN RECEIVED. ^[[1868]] | NAME OF WRITER. | DATE AND PURPORT OF LETTER. [[/preprinted]] |:-----|:-----|:-----: Nov. 21st 52. | Leidtke F.W. ASA.Comr EB p. 121. | Company Shops, N.C, Nov. 20"68 Recommends that warm Clothing,if on hand, be issued by the Bureau to poor people made homeless and shelterless by disloyal landowners because they have dared to exercise their right-to-vote in opposition to them. Nov. 16th 53. * | Leidtke F.W. A.S.A. Comr. Filed | Company Shops, N.C. Nov. 15th 1868 Reports the condition of affairs in regards Freed people in his Sub District, Dec. 9th. 54 | Leidtke F.W. A.S.A.Comr. E.B p. 129. 1868-N.C. | December 9th 1868 Company Shops, N.C. Requests permission to delay joining his Regiment for 30 days after from the date of his being relieved from duty in the Bureau R.F & A.L. Dec. 9". 55 * | Leidtke F.W. A.S.A.Comr. Filed | Company Shops N.C. Dec 7 "68 Before letter of Samuel Lea, Cold. Et al. who complain "that they planted on Shares with Jas. Williamson white who advanced them provisions during the year. They have made corn & tobacco. Williamson, has all crops in his possession Wants to be paid in full out of the Corn and will not wait until the Tobacco is ready for division. In this manner the Colored people will have no corn and cannot possible live until April when Tobacco is ready, without food. States that this is one of the many cases referred to in letter from his Office of Nov. 15th 68. Planters are trying to defraud the freedmen out of their Earnings &c.
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