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Jonesboro, Jany 30. 1866
General Fisk
Dear General
At the request of the parties interested I write this letter. The military authorities before they left East Tennessee, seized a hotel & eating house in this town in part as rebel property, belonging to the heirs of Jno Blair deceased. Mr Blair died in 1863, leaving a widow, & several children of mature age as his heirs at law: His widow is seventy years old in Mar, and one third of the hotel was assigned to her for [[?]] Mr Blair left two daughters, one a widow, residing with her mother, & having no means of support, having several children; the other daughter is the wife of a methodist minister who was for a time in the rebel army as a quarter master, & as chaplain. The widow & two daughters, no doubt sympathized with the confederates but they did nothing that would rightfully subject their estates to confiscation. Three of Mr Blairs sons were in the confederate army. Alexander Robert & Franklin. Alexander has died since the close of the war, leaving only a widow. Robert & Frank are still alive. Probably their interest would be liable to be seized as rebel property