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Dover Russell Co. Ala
Mr Smith's Station
August 31 1865

His Excellency Gov Parsons,

Sir.
I wish to make a few enquiries of you. Have the Yankie Garrison at Columbus Ga. any authority on the Ala side of the river? They have been coming on this side taking things from the Citizens, and interfering with the [[strikethrough]] Ten [[/strikethrough]] management of the Freedmens and arresting men and carrying them to Columbus Ga to try them, who have had difficulties with them. We are living so near Columbus that our Freedmen instead of reporting [[strikethrough]] there [[/strikethrough]] us to Opelika, they report to Columbus Ga. There has also been several cases of white men and [[strikethrough]] negr [[/strikethrough]] Freedmen coming from [[?]] and Columbus in the county on stealing expedition. 

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