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I send them back with instructions to resume work and if the planters endeavor to eject them from the premises to report to me.
The crops are now looking fine, planters inform me that they have never looked better: Corn is entirely made, and Cotton is almost certain, the only Cause for failure in the latter is too much rain. If the freedmen succeed in getting their proportion of the crops, there can be no prospect for starvation among them the coming year.
The briefness of my report has been made necessarily so by the great amount of labor incumbent upon me in attending to the complaints of the Freedmen, settling their accounts, by my absence, and the recent changes at this office.
Very Respectfully
Your Obdt Servt
Geo. S. Smith
Capt. V.R.C. Bvt. Maj
Sub Asst Com Bu R.F. and A.L.