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Franklin 20th Sept 1865.
Genl. Fisk

Dear Sir
Yours enclosing photograph was duly recd. for which accept thanks It is pronounced in the family to be a capitol likeness and placed among the photographs of the family. Your visit among our people gave universal satisfaction as far as I have heard without a dissenting voice. Your policy approved, and if you are successful enough to get an agent to carry out your policy I think we would get along very harmoniously. I enclosed a little notice from our paper of your visit to Franklin. I have not changed my opinion about J.P. McKay Esqr. & I think if you could see & talk with him. You would agree with me. 
Most Respectfully
Your obt svt. 
Jno B. McEwen

P.S. Since you were out I have not heard of any trouble or difficulty whatever on account of the F.M.C. A small pox case appeared in the nieghborhood & ran off. giving us some uneasiness and trouble, but I do not know what has become of him. He returned to the Country. J.B.M

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neglected. We have been visited in the past week by Gen. Fisk, of the Freedman's Bureau, looking after the interests of the unfortunate race. His appearance and demeanor is gentlemanly, and his speech to the colored population on Sunday last seems to have given general satisfaction to all who saw and heard him, both white and black, and we are satisfied that if all the people of the county could see and hear him, it would be of incalculable benefit, and all concerned might learn something that would prove useful and beneficial to them. He urges the freedmen to take a hint in time, and betake themselves to work "instead of smoking their pipes, dipping snuff, and dreaming about singing themselves away to glory.".

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