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FREEDMEN'S BUREAU,
PROVOST MARSHAL'S OFFICE,
Meridian, Miss., ^[[30th July]] 1865.
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Leut Col R. S. Donaldson
Actg. Asst Commr Freedmens Bureau 
Jackson

Colonel

I would respectfully recommend that a Provost Marshal of Freedmen be sent below this place, on the M. & O. R. R. to be stationed at some point below Enterprise, Shubuta, is in a rich fertile Prairie County, and the plantations are large, one of them of Four Hundred:

I am Colonel
Very Respectfully
Your obt svt
[[signature]] C. W. Clarke [[/signature]]
Provost Marshall Freedmen