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1866,
Columbus Ga August 26th.

General Wager Swain

Sir
Let me call myself to your recollection. Struther who under your promise of transportation carried a poor family of Negroes to [[?]] and to whom afterwards you refused the transportation. I write to state to you the condition of a poor family of negroes on my place in the lower part of Russel County, Ala. Harnet, Jull fifty years of age, has not walked in fifteen years. Sarah her daughter lame of a broken thigh, and nearly blind of chronic sore eyes, with five small children. Madison husband of said Sarah, afflicted from infancy with constitutional asthma [[strikethrough]] from infancy [[/strikethrough]] These negros