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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

Hd Qrs Sub Dist Talladega 
Talladega Ala Feb 6th 1868

Maj George Shockley 
A A A General 
Montgomery Ala 

Maj
Enclosed please find a copy of Genl Orders No 1 from my Office this date 

I was in hopes that the election would terminate without requiring any attention from my office. But it having come to my knowledge that a large number of colored people in different neighborhoods in this county were actually prevented from voting by their employers, who threatened that if they voted they should at once be turned out of doors without any provisions for themselves or families 

Knowing that their threats were working an impression upon the minds of a large number of colored people, which would result in depriving them the right [[electorate?]] franchise, and in view of [[strikethrough]] improving [[/strikethrough]] impressing the minds of the people generally with spirit

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