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there will be many freedpeople out of Employment during the next year and large tracts of Land will lay uncultivated and abandoned; and I respectfully request to be instructed whether or not I have authority to seize such abandoned Lands and allow them to be cultivated by loyal Refugees and Freedmen arbitrarily and unjustly discharged from Employment.

I am Colonel
very respectfully
your obedient Servant
F.W. Liedtke
Lieut. 43d U.S. Infantry
Asst. Sub Asst. Comr

Colonel Jacob F. Chur
A.A.A.Genl, HdQrs A.C.
Raleigh
N.C.