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Dadeville Ala. Nov. 9 1867

Genl Swayne

I am here to see Judge Sturdevant in regard to some apprenticed children, about whom I wrote to you & Genl. Pope recently, which is refered back to the judge here, he will write you in detail I presume - These children were apprenticed to my wife, she being a free dealer, at the solicitations of their mothers - we have fed clothed & sustained them since the close of the war & mothers too at an expense & now that the oldest can help us some they want all or none - justice to us would say let us have some remuneration & my wife is willing that the mothers have all but the oldest of each family & these for, say, five years. What you do we shall abide by, but surely we ought to have return for what we have done - If you act we should be glad to have the right secured for the time you may set in gratitude [[?]]. Neither of the women have husbands, & had not for three years before the liberation or surrender, so that the women certainly could not in cases of this kind.
My residence is in Chambers County, near Dudleyville, so that should you have occasion to reply to this when you hear from Judge Sturdevant address me there. 
I am very respectfully yours,
Sam. C. Dailey.

The letter to Genl. Pope would have been addressed to you had I known that you had sole control of matters of the kind brought forward therein.
S.C.D.