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Bureau Refugees Freedman & Aband. Lands
State of Tennessee
Assistant Commissioner's Office
Nashville, January 10th 1868.

Judd Captain Geo. E.
Sub Asst. Commr. &c.
Pulaski, Tenn.

Captain:
I am directed to transmit by today's mail four (4) copies of Circular No. 30. Commissioner's Office, Washington D.C. series 1867. Please acknowledge receipt.
I have the honor to remain Captain,
Very respectfully
Your Obdt Servt
S. W. Groesbeck
Lieut 42'd Infantry
A.A.A. Genl.

570.

Filed communication to Capt Walsh with, 8
Filed communication to Capt Walker with, 6
Filed communication to Col. Palmer with, 8

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Bureau Refugees Freedman & Aband. Lands
State of Tennessee.
Assistant Commissioner's Office.
Nashville, Jany. 11th, 1868.

Carpenter, Rev. C. C.
Supt. Lookout Mt. Ed. Institutions-
Chattanooga, Tenn.

Sir:
I am directed to inform you that two children, Kate D. and Emma Dillon, have been furnished transportation to your school, and that they will leave this place on the morning train of the 13th instant
Very Respectfully,
Your Obedt Servt.
S. W. Groesbeck
Lieut. and A.A.A.G.
571

16.
Bureau Refugees, Freedman and Aband. Lands,
State of Tennessee.
Assistant Commmissioner's Office.
Nashville, Jany. 14th 1868.

Johnson James M.
Agent. Bu. R.F. & A.L.
Chattanooga, Tenn

Sir:
The Assistant Commissioner directs that you furnish transportation for the bearer Junie, and her sister Sallie Burts, from Chattanooga, to the Lookout Mountain Ed. Institutions - to which they have been recommended for admission under authority of Genl. Howard's letter of Novr. 11, 1867.
Very respectfully,
Your Obedt. Servt.
S. W. Groesbeck
Lieut 42th Infty & A.A.A.G.
572.

17.
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Aband. Lands,
State of Tennessee,
Assistant Commissioner's Office,
Nashville, Jany. 14th, 1868.

Duncan. Bvt. Brig. Genl. Thos.
Comdg. Mil. Dist. of Nashville.

General:
I have the honor to inclose herewith a statement made by Frank Dickinson of Linnville, twelve miles north of Pulaski, on the Rail Road leading to that place. It seems that a secret society known as the Ku Klux Klan have undertakin to regulate society in Giles and Maury. Their weapons are firearms and whips. The negroes are in a great state of alarm, and also the Union Whites. This Ku Klux Klan, like all secret organizations, not excepting the Loyal League is a nuisance, and ought to be abated. I have the honor to request that the parties named in the statement of Dickinson, be arrested in accordance with Genl Grant's order, No. 44. Considering the attempt to overawe and intimidate the negroes and their political friends, and all loyal people & to prevent them from making satisfactory contracts for the present year, and from collecting

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