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Holly Springs
Mar. 22 1866 

Col. Donelson 

Dr Sir

Can there be nothing done here for the protection of freedmen or is "my (cursed) policy" to prevail? I have complaints almost every day, and there is one very urgent case of a woman who has come from Ark. after two sons of hers. She has left a family (one a baby) at home and is very anxious to get back to them. Her