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"myself to refund to him upon receiving"
"from proper source order to do so."

T.M. Goodfellow"
Chap 101 U S I &c"
Supt R F & A. Lands"
Sub dist Huntsville"

I now ask you to place this communication in addition before the department & if my cause shall be deemed just, equitable, or reasonable ask for a release of my property from any claim The Freedmans Bureau of Huntsville sale up against it. & a requisition upon Mr Goodfellow to return to me the money so paid [[strikethrough]] [[?]] fo [[/strikethrough]] under compulsion.

The Bureau of Freemen was not inaugurated here under Mr Goodfellow until 1 August 1865 as he informed me. My property was returned to me on 10 July 1865 by the military authorities as you know. & I have been in possession since. He claims that a memorandum on paper was handed to him on taking charge here that my House was turned over by the military authorities on 10 July '65 to Somebody as