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Head Quarters Post of Eufaula
Eufaula Ala
Oct 31st 1865

Gen Swayne of Freedmans Bureau

Where freedman were hired out by their former owners prior to the occupation of the county by the U.S. forces is the freedman entitled to all the wages or is his former owner entitled to a part thereof? 

I wish to call your attention to the freedmen of Henry County. They are generally very badly treated and in some instances brutally. In Some cases I have sent men to arrest parties guilty of shooting and otherwise maltreating them but have not been able to find the parties 

I have repeatedly called the attention of the civil authorities to such cases but can not learn of their having taken any action whatever. - I have been useing my best efforts to secure proper treatment to the freedmen without being an authorized agt. of the Bureau. I am now the only commissioned officer on duty here and my command is too small (and is being reduced daily) to

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