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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen &c. 
Office Asst. Commr for Miss. 
Vicksburg, Sept. 17th 1867.

Respectfully returned to Mr. A.S. Alden, Port Gibson Miss., It is not deemed expedient to grant the request. There is a large number of colored persons in and around Port Gibson. If disease prevails there, they will be in need of the advice and assistance of the Agent. To flee from disease would not be setting a commendable example to the freedmen whose circumstances preclude their abandoning their homes and employment. 

By order of 
Bvt. Maj. Gen. A.C. Gillem 
Asst. Commissioner 
Jas W. Sunderland 
Capt. V.R.C., A.A.A. General. 

Port Gibson. Miss. 
Sept 27-1867-

Respectfully returned to the A.A.A. Gen B.R.F. ^ A.L. State of Miss - with the information that I only wanted permission to go to the country every evening, and return, in the morning to my Office. I had no idea of neglecting my affairs - but I would respectfully inform the A.A.A. Gen of the Bureau - that Yellow Fever does not affect Freedmen to what it does the Whites. I only had a desire to avoid if I could any danger. Cowardice is not the material I am composed of

I have the honor to be 
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Svt
A.S. Alden
Agt B.R.F. & A.L. 

Freedman's Bureau State of Miss OCT 4 1867 Received B