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if she were allowed to know our situation & wishes - she would gladly come home.
If anything can be done in our favor It would greatly comfort a sorrowing mother & anxious father

Tony Lench
Cor Church & Ewing
Nashville Tenn.

P.S. I do not know whether she is called Lucy Lench or Lucy Dismukes - Dr. Dismukes took her and other slaves to Canton Miss. for safe-keeping when the Federals entered Nashville - & left her there.
T.L.