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Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Office Sub Asst Commissioner 
District of Yazoo
Yazoo City May 6th 1867

Major A. W. Preston
A. A. A. Genl Bur R. F. & A. L.
Vicksburg Miss

Major
I respectfully request that Troops be stationed at this Post. I consider it actually necessary for the protection of persons and property. The civil authorities inform me that they cannot execute the Laws in many cases. A portion of the troops should be mounted in order to act promptly.

I am Major
Very respectfully
Your Ot. Svt
D M White
Lieut. V.R.C  S. A. C 

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