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a very large force to protect it from depredations and that had been one season why I had desired the sent to be paid in a specific amount of rice.
It was only at a subsequent interview that I made known to him that each hand on set cultivated his or its crop separate from the others - which I should have done earlier if it had occurred to me.
In estimating the crop at 7000 or 8000 bushels of rice I placed it at only one third of the produce on the same plantation by the same force before the war, or on neighboring plantations. Lay 50 hands including wives/and there may have been upwards of 60/ cultivating 500 acres and producing 50 bushels would be 25000 bushels which none of my neighbors would have called a great crop or an extravagant [[?]] of acres the hand on my loose lands which prevail to a greater extent with me than on some of the plantations above mine - The [[?]] the river before the war was from eight to twelve acres of rice to the hand
I avail myself of my daughters pen to write you this statement, which I hope will be satisfactory.
I have the honor to be General.
Very Respectfully, Your obedient Servant.