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Quite a number had intimated their desire to be so married, ere I left the camp.
There are about sixty (60) families in camp. The live in decent log cabins, with small garden patches adjacent thereto, in which they take great pride. The camp policing was quite indifferent.
In my intercourse with the freed people I found all very anxious as to their future. They possessed a good idea of their position at present. All were desirous of obtaining land to call their own. When I informed of the allotment system about to be inaugurated, their "Bless the Lord", and "Glory to God" were very fervent and unctious. A marked spirit of acquisitiveness prevails. Wages in this section rates as fifteen [[crossed out]] and [[/crossed out]] ($15) dolls, males, and ten (10) dollars, per month for field hands. This is the minimum.

Next to the Hobbs place is one claimed by a rebel Doctor Macklin, Hobbs brother-in-law. It contains about twenty-five hundred (2500) acres and is convenient for an allotment experiment. The soil is not quite so good as on the Hobbs place. I learned an interesting fact while here