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Oh Maj:
I beg for Gods sake
have mercy upon me.
Do not turn me over to the Southern people.
O if you have the least feeling for a poor miserable 
creature, leave me not in the hands of those men, I beg of you most earnestly, oh spare me that humiliation, it would be also a humiliation for all the United States officers and the freedmen bureau these men would clapp their hands and curse the freedmens bureau and every body connected with it & know, they would proseante me unmercifully. O have mercy on me Maj: be mercifull to me do not turn me over to those men, I beg for Gods sake.
John says that the other officer was sent [[strikeout]] [[illegible]] [[/strikeout]] to Greeneville 2 weeks oh do not do that for Your