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Private     
Sardis Miss July 26/67

[[stamp]] Freedman's Bureau State of Miss Received JUL 31 1867 [[/stamp]]

Dear Major
Enclosed please find official answer to your inquiry of July 24th/67 permit [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] me to request of you to please intreat in my behalf to the Genl. Comdg. for pardoning my offence in coming to Sardis instead of establishing myself at Senatobia. I have no doubt my communication of July 6th in reply as to the matter was lost in transit,  I can if asked furnish copy. Had it been possible for me to have been