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Head Quarters Post of Greenville Sept 15" 1865. Asst. Superintendent of Freedmen, Greenville, Ala. Capt., I have been informed in confidence that on the coast of Alabama & Florida, parties having contracts for lumber, employ Freemen in large numers, ship them as hands offering them large wages ($3- per day), taking them to West India and there sell them into slavery. This information amounts to something more than vague ruinous, & a successful trip, by which 700 negroes were carried off is spoken of. The accounts may have been changed & exaggerated befor they reached me, but I think them reliable enough to justify me in reporting such attrocities to the proper depart. Very respectfully (signed) William A. Kobbe, Capt. 178th New York Commanding Post. (over)
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I left misspellings as written (numers, ruinous [[rumors]], befor, attrocities)
[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]