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C. 55 F B. N. D. M. 1865

Office Sub Comm'r
Aberdeen. Miss. Oct 12/65

Coffin N. P.
Sub. Comm'r

States that it will be absolutely necessary that to have a Physician at Aberdeen this winter.

There are a dozen cases at present of sickness among negroes who cannot pay and the number is increasing. Dr. Tisdale who has been treating gratuitously now offers to take a contract to treat all cases of poor freedmen in city for $100. per. month. 

The Freedmen are becoming alarmed at the report of troops being removed. States that colored people paid for furnishing and finishing basement of Baptist Church, but that the trustees now refuse to allow them to use it for a School room and have taken it for that purpose for white children. Needs to be furnished with books, Globes & charts. 

Recd. Oct. 18. 1865

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Did best I could. Words bleeding over on other side of this page made some here difficult to read.