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Freedmens Hospital
Demopolis Marengo Co. Ala
October 27th, 1865 

Brig. Gen'l. Wager Swayne
Ass't. Commissioner
Bureau R. F. & A. L. 

Sir
I have the honor to submit the following statement: I am in charge of the "Freedmens Hospital" at this Post by request of the Post Comdr. to whom complaint had been made several times of the miserable condition of the Jail at Linden. I on the 23rd, visited "Linden Colony" and on the 24th, visited "Linden Village Jail" where I found upon close inspection and inquiry that the building is entirely to small for the object intented, the