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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abondoned Lands, State of Tennessee,
Assistant Commissioner's Office,
Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 27, 1867.

Solomon Randles of Gallatin Texas Colored, represents to this office that he commenced to work for one Louis Wythe of Guntersville Marshall County Alabama on the 14 day of January 1861, that he was to have $12.00 per month that he continued to labor for said Wythe until the 10 day of July 1864, that during this time he was a free man, but that he never received any compensation what ever for his labor; that Wythe once borrowed of him $23.00 in gold & silver of which he paid back $5.00 only, in Confederate notes.

He further represents that during the war - about the 1st of September - he took from the premises of Mr Wythe one wash tub, one sack of salt, one kettle, and a 4 gallon jar of lard, all of which he supposes was worth about $20.00
Attest
JW Trosbeck
Lt 42d Infty & A.A.A.G.