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Office of Assist Supt
Bureau of Refugees, Freedman &c
Greenville, Ala
January 1st 1866

Colonel C. Cadle Jr
A.A.G.

Colonel:

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter regarding two colored children who were apprenticed to Mr McQueen of this County.  And in reply beg leave to state, that they were recommended by me to the Judge of Probate for Apprenticeship under the new law. I previously ascertained that neither the Father, or Mother, had paid the least attention to them, but the Father having made a new Contract, discovered that the children would bring him more money by living with him, hence the sudden fit of parental affection.  

There are many similar cases existing, but I will think that in the most instances, the children are better off in charge of the white man, than with their unnatural parents.