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sites for school buildings, for their respective places, you will immediately report in person to this office.
It. is, however, important that schools should be established at both these places, and you should leave no means untried, to induce the people to meet the expenses necessary to obtain sited for these schools, and thus secure the assistance of the Bureau.
Very respectfully,
Your Obedient Servt.
S. W. Groesbeck
Lt. 42d Infty & A A A G
588.

Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Aband. Lands.
State of Tennessee.
Assistant Commissioner's Office.
Nashville, Jany. 28th, 1868.
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Hurst, Fielding, Judge,
Purdy, Tenn.

Dear Sir:
Your letter of the 17th inst. has been received. In reply, I regret to learn that the seeming failure to make your reports to the Sub-Asst. Commr. at Memphis was caused by the mismanagement of the Post Office at Purdy. I am fully aware of the valuable services you have rendered to the freedmen of your Agency, and thank you for your aid to them, as well as for your promise to continue to do all that you can for their welfare.
Very repectfully,
Your Obedt, Servant.
W P Carlin
Bvt. Major Genl. USA.
Asst. Commr.
489.

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Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Aband. Lands
State of Tennessee.
Assistant Commissioner's Office-
Nashville, Jany 28th 1868.

Palmer, Lieut. Col. Fred. S.
Sub=Asst. Commr.
Memphis, Tenn. -

Colonel,
he Assistant Commissioner, fearing that the destitution in Memphis may continue to increase to such an extent as will require further measures for its relief, directs me to say that, if it becomes absolutely necessary, you may establish a soup house. You will have no means untried to inforce the City authorities to cooperate with you in the undertaking, but if they refuse, the Bureau will alone assume the necessary expenses. A Soup house has been opened in this city by the Civil Authorities, and has proved to be the most efficient, and at the same time, most commercial plan yet devised for the purpose.
Should you determine to establish a Soup House, the A.C.S. at Memphis, can without doubt - under authority from the C.S. at Louisville & Col. Small) - issue the necessary supplies -
Copies of communications relative to this subject received from the Commissary Office are here with inclosed, from which you can gather such details as will enable you to act intelligently in this matter.
I have the honor to be, Colonel,
Very respectfully
Your Obdt. Servt.
S. W. Groesbeck
Lt. and A.A.A. Gen'l.
590.

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Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Aband. Lands.
State of Tennessee -
Assistant Commr's Office,
Nashville, Jany. 29th 1868.

Duncan, - Bvt. Brig. Gen'l. T.
Comdg. Military District of Nashville, Tenn.

General,
I have the honor to transmit herewith a number of affidavits of of Colored men living in Maury and Marshall Counties, Tenn., giving details of the outrages perpetrated on them by the "Ku Klux Klan," a secret organization. Several of these affidavits are copies of those I forwarded to you about a fortnight ago. Will you please inform me if you can take any action in this matter, and if so
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