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Troy Pike Co Ala.
Sept 7th 1865

General
Yours of the 4th Inst by the hands of Capt Stewart was handed me yesterday evening, & I will contribute all I can to make the captains stay amongst us as pleasant as possible.

I have taken great pains to inform myself of the truth of the "thousand and one" rumors I have herd as to violence upon freedmen, & in a very large number of cases they are wholly unfounded