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Huntsville Ala
November 23rd 1865

Maj T.M Goodfellow
Chief S.C


The undersigned who is a citizen of the Town of Huntsville, where he has resided for the last thirty years, respectfully ask to lay before your department certain facts with reference to the seizure of a house and lot belonging to petitioner and now held by the offices of the Freedmens Bureau as property liable to confiscation- On the 15th day of October 1862, having first in good faith rented his house and lot and furniture to D.A. Brown, the same being the house now in question, he left this place & went to his plantation in the state of Mississippi - At the time mentioned there was neither Federal nor Confederate soldiers in the town of Huntsville nor was there any immediate probability of such occupation- Your petitioner states that in point of fact it was several months after he left his home in Huntsville before there was any military occupation of the place, and these matters are stated because he desires to show that the transaction 

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[[stamp]]THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES[[/stamp]]