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Carrollton Ala Jany 10 1868
S.C. Green Capt 24 Inft Brvt Maj USA ADC & AAAG.
Sir your note of Dec 29, inst requesting "the fullest information as to the actual existence and probable future of such want of employment and consequent suffering as are matters of official cognizance in other states" has been received. In reply I have to state I have been made the medium through whom supplies for the destitute of this county have passed for the last five or six years. I therefore will write you only such facts as I know exist and give you my views as to the most prudent plan of relieving the existing suffering. 

I believe that most of the minor orphans blacks in the county are now properly taken care of. either voluntarily by their former owners, or by them or others who apprenticed them and given the proper homes.

There are however, as I think as many as fifty perhaps seventy five old decrepit negros unable to work and make a support, what is to become of them is in question which is difficult to solve. Their former owners cant support them. some are in the poor house, others are being fed or clothed by their former owners, with the hope of getting pay for it from the county at some time.

Also there are about fifty or seventy five families of whites who are exceedingly destitute without bread or meat and have to live as they can get the means from their neighbors, their children, girls and poor 3 to 16 years old. without even a cow or horse or even a hog. 

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