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Bureau of R F & A L 
Hd Qrs Sub Dist of Robeson Co
Lumberton N C August 6th 1866

Bvt Brig Gen Allen Rutherford 
Superintendent So Dist of N C

General

I have the honor to request a detail of one non-commissioned officer and four men to enable me to take from Daniel L. Russell two children, the Indentures of Apprenticeship having been annulled. I Sent an order to Russell by the Parents of these children. Russell refused to give up the children and informed the Freedmen that the civil laws were in force now and that General Rutherford nor Lieut Tipton could not take the children from him unless we did it by force. I Sent one of the Policemen after the children but he failed to get them. please have the men furnished with Transportation to Shoe-Heel and return and if possible
 
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