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Montgomery Dec 3d 1866

Maj. Genl Wager Swayne

General 
I have the honor to state that reliable information has reached me to the effect that a negro woman named Francis with four children was removed during the war by her then owner a Mr Jackson of Lauderdale County into the County of Talladega where she now is. Her relatives and friends reside near Florence in Lauderdale County. That this woman is very poor and finds great difficulty in procuring a subsistence for herself and children and believes that she could procure assistence [[assistance]] from her relatives and friends if she could get back to North Alabama she has no means however to pay transportation. I would therefore respectfully request that transportation 

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