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Mt Pleasant So Carolina
June 18th 1867

General,

I have thought best to write you a line or two concerning crops and labor in this District

The crops, generally are very good, and prospering well with the exception that the grass is exceedingly troublesome, and demands all the labor that can be had, especially at this time, to prevent the grass from stinting the cotton 

The larger number of the freedmen are planting in their own account, and are very hard put for necessary food: many have made bad contracts, on a system not approved by the Bureau, and as was anticipated, they are destitute of food; their crops demand their time, and those of the planters who depend upon paid labor, as they go day by day, are now in a very bad position.     

If there are any who are willing and want work, they can find it here, with several planters who will pay them daily, and who are now suffering for the want of labor.    

Among these are Mr Knox, Messrs Welden and Patten, Smith & Dodge, Tudgeon & Goblet & others. It might prove a saving to the Govt. could they be sent here. 

Your very Resptly
E W Everson
Bvt Maj A.D.C. 

Transcription Notes:
Edited: its Mt. (Mount) Pleasant not Mr. Pleasant, per SI ignore indents read instructions, corrected signature name and titles these are on almost every page of this document, Messrs is plural used for Misters from Rephetx to ADF is all a guess the letters that look like h's are most likely p's